Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like most innocent and hence significant humorists of the printed page, Frank Sullivan makes no blatant wisecracks in public places. He is an amazingly quiet Irishman, just short of plump. His occasional spoken words make sense and everybody likes...
...Hudson Despatch; he lived with onetime editor of the New York Mirror Phil Payne who a year ago disappeared into the ocean with the airplane Old Glory. After the War he became an agent for a California fruit company. Now he is an independent food broker; a seedy little Irishman, his office in Manhattan is decorated with labelled cans and a print of The Reaper; it has this sign upon the door...
...personally; but several Gallery Gods bawled that Gor' blymy her assistant evangelist didn't sing so an Englishman could understand him! Biting her lip and pink with vexation, Aimee McPherson shrilled: "He isn't an American at all! He lives in London. He's an Irishman!!" Even after this explanation and much powerful preaching, however, the audience of 10,000 yielded only 40 converts, who rushed to the Four Square Pulpit and cast themselves upon the bosom of the Lord. The meagerness of thank offerings collected on the first night was disheartening. Worse still, a mere...
...eagle feathers and named the wearer Chief Leading Star. They daubed his face with warpaint. . . . . . . The Sioux of North Dakota produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight?" ... It was also the week of that classic political utterance: "Nothing embarrasses...
Miner Clark was the first to discover the Butte copper veins. The first to develop them on a large scale was blatant, uncouth Marcus Daly. In 1879, a reduction plant was erected near Butte, saving the 400-mile overland haul. The next year, Irishman Daly began to make Butte roar. His men probed the earth night and day. Smoke poured out from 100 furnaces. Lumberjacks hacked down whole forests for timber to hold up excavations and tunnels...