Flaherty

[ fla-er-tee, flah- ]

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noun

Robert Joseph, 1884–1951, U.S. pioneer in the production of documentary motion pictures.

Flaherty

/ ˈflæhətɪ /

FlahertyRobert (Joseph)18841951MUSFILMS AND TV: director Robert ( Joseph ). 1884–1951, US film director, a pioneer of documentary film; his work includes Nanook of the North (1922) and Elephant Boy (1935)

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Flaherty, through her bookstore, runs 11 book clubs, including the Banned Book Club.

“We try to select books that tell stories that for so long haven’t been told,” Flaherty said.

On April 3, Flaherty and 40 other band members traveled to Boston along with a contingent of other New York firefighters.

In the news accounts following the fire, Flaherty read that Kennedy had served with the Marines in Iraq.

The Boston firefighter took a grey BFD sweatshirt from a locker and presented it to Flaherty.

Flaherty called an FDNY lieutenant who was still up in Boston.

And it all fit with what Flaherty had felt so strongly and clearly during their brief meeting.

Both Hicks and Flaherty had grown old in the towboat service and the rules of the road rested lightly on their sordid souls.

Scraggs, knowing his own fire hose, defied them, so Dan Hicks started the pump while Flaherty turned on the water.

Did you see anything of Officer Flaherty, who ought to be on this beat?

Any way, whatever the reason of it was, he had Patsy Flaherty leathering the mare like the devil.

Any way Patsy Flaherty gave over lambasting the old mare, and she stood still, the way you'd think she was glad of the rest.

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