Word: irishman
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What prompted a Welsh Irishman's interest in reviving the music culture of New Orleans...
...think I'll boss them, employers think I'll try and run the place, strangers think I'll look down on them - so they get the boot in first. "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," wrote Irishman George Bernard Shaw in the preface to Pygmalion, the play that became My Fair Lady. In England, the way you say "oh" or "oo" can make you one of the gang - or the designated buffoon. We're at King Street College in west London, where Hughes...
...Irishman “could have played Mephistopheles” while another has “a devilish appearance...
...Baer, one of the state?s veteran political observers, noted Friday, Pennsylvania actually has a rich tradition of politicians and their handlers putting their foot in their mouths during a crucial moment of a political campaign. In 1990 gubernatorial challenger Barbara Hafer called incumbent Bob Casey ?A redneck Irishman,? propelling him to a second term, and Dick Thornburgh?s aide once called his boss ?The salvation of this sorry-ass state,? pretty much assuring that Harris Wofford would become the state's next U.S. senator in 1991. So it seems that, thanks to Seif's gaffe, both Swann and Scranton...
RETIRED. MIKE TYSON, 38, volatile American boxer who in 1986 became the youngest-ever world heavyweight champion at the age of 20; after forfeiting a fight against Irishman Kevin McBride; in Washington, D.C. Tyson, who won 50 of 58 bouts?44 by knockout?during his career, earned a reputation as a brute inside and outside the ring. In 1992 he was convicted of raping a woman in Indiana and spent three years in prison. He was suspended from boxing in 1997 for a year after he bit off a piece of opponent Evander Holyfield's ear. In his final fight...