Word: blarneyer
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...read individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips into the bathetic romanticism of the late Donn (The Woman of the Shee) Byrne; at his best, he writes like a James Joyce who has kissed the Blarney stone...
...mood for a last hurrah, Boston's former mayor and silver-voiced Prince of Blarney, James M. Curley, 82, was no sooner sworn in as a member of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission than he learned that his son George, 38, once Boston director of public celebrations, had surrendered to Morris County, N.J. police, charged with impairing the morals of two male minors...
...through Limerick and Galway and Dublin, pushing his cameras and a troupe of Ireland's best actors before him. In dramatic meanderings most of the commonplaces of the native character are trotted forth-that the Irish are unpredictably gay and gloomy by turns, revile England, drink prodigiously, talk blarney sideways and billingsgate straight-and are the stuff of which natural-born actors are made...
...Bridey & Blarney. But otherwise, Barker's search turned up more blarney than Bridey, even though folklorists, genealogists, historians and language specialists turned themselves inside out to help. Barker found numerous directories and records in which Bridey and several of the characters in her story-lawyers, teachers, a priest-should have been recorded if they had existed. But there was not a trace. Bridey-whose name Barker now spells "Bridie" on the advice of the Irish -had given names of Belfast streets and obscure towns through which she passed on her honeymoon trip and on a journey...
...Blarney-loving Patrick B. McGinnis, who took over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad 15 months ago with a barrage of promises of bigger profits, better trains and a new deal for commuters, last week was up to his ears in trouble. Items...