Word: galway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noisiest of them was young (38), tough Democratic Candidate Patrick J. Sonny McDonough who had a lot of tricks from Curley's book. He was tearing through the streets like a wild man, handing out free combs to the ladies and green address books to the men, singing Galway Bay and reciting Curley's sins at the top of his lungs. Another Democrat (John B. Hynes), a Republican and a Progressive were also clacking away at Curley's sins...
...year: 1857; the place: Dublin's Synge Street. Mrs. Lucinda Shaw has gone off on a visit to County Galway, leaving her one-year-old son George Bernard (known as "Bob") in care of his father, George Carr Shaw, co-partner in the respectable grain firm of Clibborn & Shaw. Naturally, mother Shaw wants to know exactly what catastrophes are taking place in her absence, so dutiful father Shaw picks up his pen and briefs...
...Sainted Sisters (Paramount) are daintily tough Veronica Lake and delicious Joan Caulfield. In flight from the New York police (circa 1895), they stop off for a con girls' holiday in a little town in Maine. They hole up with Barry Fitzgerald, the solidest down-Easter this side of Galway, and get busy fleecing the yokels...
...nothing in life will delight the spirit of a true Irishman the way a pack of lean hounds will be leppin' in full cry with pink-coated riders on fine, gallant horses just on the tails of them. Farmer Larry Costello is a true Irishman, but when the Galway Blazers, the most famous hunt in all Ireland, bore down on his property, what did Larry do? He beat on buckets to drive the fox into the gorse and thwart the chase entirely...
...thousand lights of the city itself. Young folks squealed with the delight of it, but the old ones crossed themselves and breathed a prayer. "Go sbahailadh dia sinn" (God protect us), they muttered, for hadn't the ancient tale said, too, that when the lost city reappeared, Galway itself would slide under the water? To a Dublin man who tried to put through a call to Galway, a telephone operator (who didn't know her folklore) gave unwitting confirmation of disaster. "There's no reply," she said, "they must all be dead in there...