Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples...
...Later, perhaps. After we've cleared up the mystery of the Irishman, General Tim O'Shenko...
Nevada's George W. Malone, blustering, stocky Irishman, upset Democrat Berkeley Bunker with a two-fisted assault on OPA. "Molly" Malone, 56, an engineer and Legionnaire, has had previous experience in Washington as a lobbyist for the Industrial West Foundation...
...degree from the University of North Carolina, hitch in the merchant marine, and $4.25 in change. A copy boy's job gave him his toe hold on the Scripps-Howard Washington News. In a few months (and after ( few staff shakeups by Editor Lowell Mellett) the cocksure young Irishman was the paper's top sportswriter. One day he accused Bobo Newsom, Detroit pitcher, of brawling in the Shoreham Hotel. Newsom offered to punch him in the eye if he came around. Ruark went around to the Tigers' locker room, where they squared off, swung at each other...
Seven Blocks of Granite. Four years before Knute Rockne plane-crashed to death in Kansas, Irishman Frank Leahy came to Notre Dame. He already had determination. He became first-string tackle simply because he practiced blocking, tackling and charging (against dummies) hours after the rest of the team took their showers...