Word: blarneyer
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...smart Joe Jacobs got Battling Siki, a coal-black African, to defend his world's light-heavyweight championship against his own boy, Mike McTigue. as Irish as the Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter, he snitched Max Schmeling from the German manager who had brought him to the U. S., publicized him as the "German Dempsey," and, by storming into the ring and yelling "Foul" when Jack Sharkey hit Schmeling a questionably low blow, is generally credited with winning the world's heavyweight championship...
...lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...
Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had five divisions under arms, organized a sixth division of 20,000 men, named Major General Sir Thomas A. Blarney to command...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau rushed last week from Bergen, Norway, in the Coast Guard cutter George W. Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was homebound aboard the S. S. Manhattan. *Attorney General Murphy announced there was "no spy angle" to the Bremen search. He also said last week: "There will be no repetition of the situation in 1917 when a democracy was unprepared to meet the espionage problem...
...Londoners have taken to rushing to their windows whenever airplanes drone overhead, as they used to when planes were a novelty. In Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street and in Whitehall, this psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country if cut off from the rest. Last week 13 men were named to be "dictators" of those countries (London has two commissioners) should division...