Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old gaffer who got a pass from the geriatrics ward of Limerick City Home and Hospital last week hobbled down the street with the same fixed purpose as many another Irishman, sick or well. He was heading for the nearest bookie to bet a tanner or a bob on the Grand National. "The sixpenny bet," said an authority on Fitzwilliam Square (Dublin's Harley Street), "is a great piece of therapy. It keeps them living-to see if their horse wins." Last Saturday, as Quare Times won at Aintree (see SPORT), the Irish hospitals won straight across...
...stars in this cast are Dadier's students. When they are on the screen the picture loses any aura of the trumped-up and shows the kick it might have had. They are shockingly familiar--Miller, the colored boy; West, the Irishman; Morales, the Puerto Rican; Santini, the half-wit. The unpredictable blending of viciousness and humanity in them makes it impossible to know whether their next twist will be comic or terrifying...
...outrage to the honor of Ireland, and to every thing St. Patrick's Day over meant to any Irishman with half a heart. Since when did the Irish follow a bunch of kids dressed up like British flunkies through the streets of Boston on a day in honor of the Irish patron saint?" the ex-official stormed...
...Englishmen, a West Indian, and Irishman, an Australian, a South African, a Bermudan, and ten Americans attended Monday's meting...
...unidentified man called on the Platts' landlady, told her she had better get rid of them or "the house might burn down." Race Relations Expert Willis McCall was not impressed by the Platts' ancestry. Said he at an N.A.A.W.P. rally: "There must have been a smoked Irishman in the woodpile...