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...sports cap the size of a manhole cover jammed down on his great shock of white hair, the American traveler stood by China's Great Wall and sang Danny Boy. Sure and begorra, it could only be that wandering curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 11, 1983 | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...beautiful, and many buildings are boarded up. But for a week every March, when things would normally be at their grayest and grittiest, Southie changes her clothes. And with the green of the leprechauns and the shamrocks the neighborhood starts to smile, and by St. Patrick's Day, begorra, it's a full-fledged grin.CrimsonLisa C. Hsia...

Author: By Sally Mcgillis and Billy Mckibben, S | Title: St. Patrick Comes to Southie | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

...private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession with the price and private parts of an incredible array of consorts. (As the saying went in London when the diaries were circulated, "Gomorrah, begorra!") Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, Verlaine, Gide and Proust are not judged today on the basis of their sexual proclivities; nor, argues Inglis, should Casement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imparfit Gentil Knight | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

THERE is nothing better calculated to rile the Irish than to treat them as a land of begorra, shillelaghs and shamrocks. Yet the myth is part of the land, and so is the economic progress that at last has reversed the emigration rate. It will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 12, 1963 | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

From Boston came the last begorra of the late James Michael Curley, sometime mayor, Governor and U.S. Congressman. Although often accused of sticky fingers and once imprisoned for five months on conviction of mail fraud, Curley-according to an accounting of his will filed last week-left a net estate of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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