Word: hooley
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...Eric Partridge (Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English] refers to the "lively, rough but not criminal Houlihan family in London, 1895," also "a gang of roughs led by one Hooley...
...present, O'Keefe and his sister, Mrs. Mary Hooley, are the two key witnesses. O'Keefe because police suspect he had a part in the robbery. Mrs. Hooley because police believe that $70,000 of the stolen money was stashed away in her Roxbury home. To save his sister from a jail sentence, O'Keefe indicates he is ready to talk; how much he has to offer is another matter. But police fervently hope that O'Keefe will be like the first domino by pushing him down all the rest will humble behind...
...Some etymologists trace the term to another Irishman named Hooley, whose gang became known as the Hooley-gang. Still others connect it vaguely with a notorious thug named Muldoon whose name spelled backwards reads "noodlum"; hence hoodlum and hooligan...
Died. Chancellor John ("Chauncey") Olcott, 71, Irish tenor; after eleven years of pernicious anemia; in Monte Carlo. Introduced as a singer by the late R. M. Hooley, he played his first dramatic role as a Spanish youth in Pepita or the Girl with the Glass Eyes at the old Union Square Theatre in Manhattan. After singing in Gilbert & Sullivan's Pinafore and Mikado, he studied in London, emerged the professional Irishman of "Mother Machree," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling," "A Little Bit of Heaven...
...love with a man who had jilted her. When Mr. Gilhooley found that she was thinking of leaving him, he raged, wheedled, offered to marry her. Finally the girl- Helen ("Act of God"-) Hayes - did leave him; but she came back. And when she came back Mr. Gil hooley strangled her and shot himself. Both principals give an excellent ac count of themselves: Arthur Sinclair, strong, decent, generous; Miss Hayes, frustrated, impetuous, affecting. Many a Gaelophile had an evening's entertainment just listening to a lot of good Irish ac cents. Happily, Miss Hayes did not at tempt...