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Looking 60,000 draftees in the mouth, U.S. Army dental examiners found that the best teeth in eastern Massachusetts are those of Negroes and Chinese; the worst, those of English and Irish. For every Russian-Jewish draftee rejected for bad teeth, three Irishmen were rejected...
Within eight months 150,000 people of Cork and nearby areas had taken the pledge. Soon Father Mathew was drying up Irishmen by the thousand. Within six years Ireland's annual consumption of whiskey fell from twelve and a quarter million to five and a half million gallons...
...offer to good nutrition. . . . The diet of every family should include . . . milk and milk products." Most people believe milk to be good food, tolerate bacteria in it in reasonable quantities as part of each man's "peck of dirt before he dies," give milk credit for making U.S. Irishmen even taller than their Erin brothers and U.S. Japanese inches taller than their forebears...
Ahead of him, behind him, was his army. They were Englishmen, Irishmen and Scots who had fought and been beaten in France; the Australian 9th Division (Morshead's Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...
...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...