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O'Neill

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O'Neill  (-nl), Eugene Gladstone 1888-1953.
American playwright. Among his works are Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) and Long Day's Journey into Night (produced 1956), for which he was awarded his fourth Pulitzer Prize. He won the 1936 Nobel Prize for literature.
O'Neill, Thomas Philip, Jr. Known as "Tip." 1912-1994.
American politician who served as a U.S. representative from Massachusetts (1952-1986) and was speaker from 1977 to 1986.
O'Neill [əʊˈniːl]
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(Biographies / O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone) (1888-1953) M, US, THEATRE: dramatist) Eugene (Gladstone). 1888-1953, US dramatist. His works, which are notable for their emotional power and psychological analysis, include Desire under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (1928), Mourning becomes Elektra (1931), Long Day's Journey into Night (1941), and The Iceman Cometh (1946): Nobel prize for literature 1936
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Noun1.O'NeillO'Neill - United States playwright (1888-1953)
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill


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`The Count of Monte Cristo,' which I had seen James O'Neill play that winter, was by the only Alexandre Dumas I knew.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
The name is that of Michael O'Neill, popularly called Prince Michael, partly because he claimed descent from ancient Fenian princes, and partly because he was credited with a plan to make himself prince president of Ireland, as the last Napoleon did of France.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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