Word: dooley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pizened Sausages. Finley Peter Dunne's fictional humorist, the Irish bartender Mr. Dooley, imagined the scene when President Theodore Roosevelt first read The Jungle: "Tiddy was toying with a light breakfast an' idly turnin' over th' pages iv th' new book with both hands. Suddenly he rose fr'm th' table, an' cryin': 'I'm pizened,' begun throwin' sausages out iv th' window." Author Sinclair lunched at the White House with T.R., though presumably not on sausages. The President later wrote Sinclair's publisher: "Tell...
Those days, Halas insists, are over now; he has promised to let Dooley have complete charge of the team. But he still owns 91% of the Chicago Bears, and nobody who knows him is convinced that George Halas, 73, can ever be simply an investor...
...ended one of the most flamboyant careers in U.S. sport. Complaining that the arthritis in his hip "has progressed to the point where I simply cannot move about quickly enough on the sidelines," the most successful head coach in pro football retired and turned the job over to Jim Dooley, 38, his No. 1 assistant...
...DeLUISE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Actor-Comedian Dom DeLuise replaces Jonathan Winters on the summer schedule with the same old variety-comedy format. Guests are Bill McCutcheon, Marian Mercer, Paul Dooley and the Gentry Brothers. Premiere...
...audience-in the classrooms that were used for warm-up rooms, in the parking lots, in the shadow of the tent. Everywhere the air was filled with the dum-ditty-dum-dum rhythms, sprightly scraping and mournful droning of such classic Appalachian ditties as Jimmy Crack Corn, Tom Dooley and John Henry...