Word: galway
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Even as literary memorabilia, the book is made suspect by Harris' ravening ego and his congenital inability to tell the truth. Son of a Royal Navy lieutenant, Harris ran away from his native Galway at 15 and made his way to the U.S. Eventually he became a European correspondent for several U.S. newspapers. When Russian General Mikhail Skoboleff gallantly galloped into the mouths of the Turkish cannon at Plevna, Harris was (he says) "naturally at his heels." Other witnesses recall that he covered the war from a brothel in Odessa...
...every flunking schoolboy knows, runaway film productions have turned Hollywood from a suburb into a synecdoche, and Hollywood's people are living under every other rock from County Galway to the Areopagus hill. Knock on any castle, there's a star inside. Don't stop to photograph that shabby beggar by the European roadside; he's just a scenario writer looking for work...
Missouri's John Huston, of course, is a bit of the old sod if ever there was one. In Galway, he has a 26-room Georgian mansion, a trout stream, and a shooting bog. For some time he has been Joint Master of the Foxhounds of the Galway Blazers, for whom he gave a party one night last week that lasted until break of day, while Huston's fellow huntsmen, 500 strong, milled around under three marquees set up on the master's spacious lawn. "I like horses and deep country and the Irish pleasantries," says Huston...
...plentiful help, could be summer suburbs of Stuttgart. Many buy land abroad in order to dispose of "black capital," as they call unreported income. Others frankly seek out areas that German real estate ads describe as "far from any crisis zone." One house hunter in County Galway wanted to know the prevailing wind. Told that it comes from the southwest, he beamed: "Good. It crosses 3,000 miles of sea. No atomic dust." However, most middle-income Germans reason that owning a resort cottage is simply a good investment; on their own vacations, they can save hotel bills, and later...
...present age of the specialist, a man like Harris might well have been screened out. Born in 1856 in Galway, son of a Welsh lieutenant in the Royal Navy, young Harris ran away from school at 15, having made a name for himself by hitting the class bully with a cricket ball-which was (and is) not considered cricket in an English school. Harris made his way to America, became a shoeshine boy and sand hog in New York (he worked on the Brooklyn Bridge), a cowboy in the U.S. West (he was fearless as a gun fighter...