Word: blarneyer
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Inevitably, they went off to kiss the Blarney Stone together. But then, while hundreds of pencils, typewriters and teletypes poised to write the happy ending, they ended the suspense...
...plotline of Children of the Rainbow is not its lifeline: that is in the glow of living that runs through the book. Novelist MacMahon escapes the twin vices of Irish fiction, blarney and bathos, and he writes about his Ireland as if he had never so much as heard of Dublin's James Joyce and the sad, dark view he took...
Three Wishes for Jamie Anne Jeffreys and John Raitt in a pleasant musical tinged with the blarney. Ends today at the Shubert...
...minuet-time; speak, think, and move always in that measure." The irony of Chesterfield's own life was that he gracefully missed every other beat. He served George II ably as ambassador to The Hague, and was probably one of the few lord-lieutenants of Ireland whose blarney charmed the Irish. But solid triumphs abroad never netted him more than slim cabinet posts at home, and George II scornfully dubbed the diminutive earl a "dwarf-baboon...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, 67, Australia's top soldier, second Dominion man (after Jan Smuts) to attain field marshal rank; after long illness; in Melbourne. After a spell as Deputy Commander in Chief in the Middle East during World War II, he brought his rugged Australian "desert rats" back to the Southwest Pacific, mopped up Jap-infested islands that were bypassed in the Allied advance...