Word: irishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...INNOCENT EYE, by Arthur Calder-Marshall. Robert Flaherty is described in this admirable biography as the archetype of the artist-adventurer: a steel-hewed Irishman who spent the first half of his life exploring the Arctic, a Blake-like visionary who spent the second half inventing the documentary film and producing its early masterworks-Nanook of the North, Moana, Louisiana Story...
Died. Michael Joseph Quill, 60, the Irishman who laid his shillelagh across New York City's transit system last month; of a coronary occlusion; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...
...thugs, Johnny, fresh from parochial school, was driving a brick truck at the age of twelve. A stint in the World War I Navy and a few months as a fireman convinced him that he was not cut out for such tame endeavors. The pug-faced Irishman joined the cops in 1923. "Gimme a gangster, give him a gun, and leave the rest to me," he used to say. Well aware that the hoods of his day had such powerful political connections that it was difficult to convict them of serious crimes, Johnny believed in dealing out punishment...
Alfred called the new work, entitled Hogan, a "pro-sequel" to his present off-Broadway hit. It will deal with events reading up to an Irishman's immigration to Brooklyn...
Count Philippe de La Fayette invited the pug over to his table at a Paris bistro because "I had found him so charming and cultivated at a dinner we had attended together." The charming Irishman floored La Fayette with a couple of well-oiled punches, sending him to the hospital for three days to have his gashed lip and chin patched up. Peter finally apologized for the "disagreeable incident." The count nobly agreed that "the whole thing should be forgiven as an affair between gentlemen," although "of course our lawyers are still conferring" about damages...