Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years he was a hit at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...
...Irishman. Another asset in Jimmy Byrnes's favor is his thorough knowledge of the workings of the U.S. Government. He is one of the few men in history who has held high office in all its three branches. Born to poverty, on the wrong end of Charleston's King Street, he ran errands for his widowed mother (a seamstress), studied shorthand, learned to know politicians as a court reporter...
...consider myself a "good American"; nevertheless I'm as proud of my German blood as any Irishman is of his, and I would consider myself a pretty shabby individual if I weren...
...doctor created a mild stir when he popped into Alexandria, Glengarry's biggest town, for the preliminaries. There he identified himself as a Montreal-born Irishman who had long served in the British Air Force, Army & Navy...
...this giant's job, the biggest share will fall to the Union Pacific. And the burden of the U.P.'s job rests on the muscular shoulders of the red-faced, hard-as-nails Irishman who bosses its 10,000 miles of track, William Martin Jeffers...