Word: irishmen
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...some weeks the temptation to tell my own English muffin story, but feel unable to do so any longer. while studying in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I occasionally ate at a cafe run by a number of hyphenated-Americans who have origins ultimately traceable to Ireland. The customers, too, were mostly "Irishmen...
...himself, says Stanislaus, "I determined to give continence a fair trial." He also generalizes that "women do not interest Irishmen except as streetwalkers or housekeepers...
...sour-beer artist" (see glossary) his apparently sloppy words came out in (crystal. Unfortunately, the total recall of irrelevant detail which is wonderful in the saloon anecdotes is a bit of a bore in McNulty's journalistic pieces. Irish writers like McNulty should deal only with New York Irishmen. Even when he went back "to where I had never been," i.e., to Ireland, he found that to his ears Gaelic sounded like Yiddish; and that the stay-at-home Irish-unlike their New York brothers who are constantly obliged to make themselves heard in the surrounding din-talk softly...
Then John William Mackay met and married her. The ablest of a syndicate of shrewd Irishmen who pickaxed their way from the mines to mansions on San Francisco's Nob Hill, he was a husky man who stuttered when angry and had an ambition as single-track as her own: to become the master of the Comstock Lode. Mackay broke the Bank of California's hold on the land, and the earth's hold on its riches - burrowing 1,200 feet into the lode to uncover the Big Bonanza vein. "By God now that...
...time I had more or less adjusted myself to the life about me, it broke in on me that Ireland had not adjusted herself in the least little bit. Irishmen in general were still thinking about themselves, or rather, in their usual way, double thinking or squint thinking about themselves, in terms of dawns, and ands, and buts, and onwards, and dew, and dusk, while at the same time making a lot of good hard cash to the evocative vocabulary of traffic, tax, protection, quota, levy, duties, or subsidies while compiling a third and wholly different literary style (pious, holy...