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Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps (September 18, 1940 – April 6, 2016) was an American financier, Thoroughbred racehorse industry executive, and horse breeder. Widely known by the nickname "Dinny," he was chairman of the family's Bessemer Trust until retiring in 1994, and served as its vice chairman.
A college student from Ogunquit, Maine, Frances Goldsmith (often called Frannie) is pregnant at the start of the book, a topic which resulted in a painful standoff with her mother Carla and the end of her relationship with the baby's birth father, Jesse Rider. Her older brother, Frederick, had died after being accidentally killed by a ...
Dinny and the Witches. Dinny and the Witches is a satirical comedy written by William Gibson [1] in 1948, revised in 1961. It is a parody of the Cold War and nuclear scares of the 1960s, although the actual play takes place in the early 1950s in New York City, namely in Central Park. [2] The show includes some singing, but not enough to warrant ...
A council flat on the Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle, London.Dinny is exiled from his native Cork City with his two sons Blake and Sean. Every day, holed up in the flat, they endlessly perform a play which depicts, in extremely garbled form, their last day in Ireland, which featured the death of Dinny's mother, followed by Dinny murdering his brother and sister-in-law.
The rider of the second horse is often taken to represent War [4] (he is often pictured holding a sword upwards as though ready for battle) [32] or mass slaughter. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] [ 33 ] His horse's colour is red (πυρρός, purrhós from πῦρ , fire), and in some translations, the colour is specifically a "fiery" red.
Easy Rider is a 1969 American independent [3] [4] road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South , carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal.
Dinny's brother Joe Lacey was also a member of the IRA and died in the Curragh Camp hospital from complications due to his participation in the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes on 24 December 1923 (ten months after the death of his brother Dinny). A memorial in Annacarty commemorates Lacey's war service and subsequent death in action.
Donald Dinnie (10 July 1837 – 2 April 1916) was a Scottish strongman, born at Balnacraig, Birse, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. [1] Sometimes regarded as "The Nineteenth Century's greatest athlete", [2] [3] Dinnie's athletic career spanned over 50 years, and over 11,000 successful competitions. [3]