Word: blarneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flipping through the blurbs and blarney of Its trade press one day last week, Hollywood stopped to goggle at a full-page ad. Blazoned as an open letter "to the top executives of the motion picture industry," the ad said...
...clothes, rushed an Estonian mother to a maternity ward just in time (twins), and browbeat the government into giving the refugees an unused army camp for their stay. Cork's taxi drivers even sacrificed good fares to take the penniless voyagers by the carload up to kiss the Blarney Stone...
...story is a rickety yarn about the disappearance of the Blarney stone from Blarney Castle, and how a U.S. insurance investigator (Bing) helps the local police sergeant (Barry) to catch the thief. The crime, of course, gets far less footage than Crosby's crooning and a romance between Bing and the sergeant's sloe-eyed daughter (Ann Blyth...
...Defense Lawyer Stryker may command big fees, but his reputation was not enhanced by all of the blarney which the majority of the jury so easily sensed. Federal Prosecutor Tom Murphy, who draws a small salary for hard work well done, had it over Stryker "like a tent." His summation was a gem of logical courtroom oratory. By the way ... if Tom had needed help in his argument, he could have called on his brother (none other than "Fireman" Murphy, ex-Yankee pitcher) to quench Stryker's pyrotechnic palaver...
Those were the years when the U.S. Marines were trying to keep Nicaragua's rival Liberals and Conservatives from using machetes on each other.* In the turmoil a Liberal general named José Moncada rose to the top. He found Tacho's bilingual blarney useful. When Henry Stimson came down to arrange the deal that made Moncada President in 1928, Tacho acted as interpreter. By then Tacho was on the upgrade. "I was lucky," he says. From the start, he knew how to make the most of this luck...