Word: killarney
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...Both titles lifted from the opera Lily of Killarney, by Sir Julius Benedict, who lifted the latter from the most popular (with the Irish) of all Irish novels, Gerald Griffin's The Collegians...
Down from his native hills stormed the patriarchal, kilted Chief of the Kerry Clan, The McGillycuddy of the Reeks, the heights above the Lakes of Killarney. The McGillycuddy averred that a lack of censorship would spread venereal disease. He knew, he said, how frightful that could be. Anyone well acquainted with Port Said and Buenos Aires would agree...
...international sales organization and the take is too small. For last fortnight's Sweeps on the Grand National, only ?224,500 was collected. In Dublin, rumor had it that Promoter McGrath (Duggan is dead) will soon organize a new company-to establish an Irish Monte Carlo, known as Killarney...
...noted duel, in 1859, by California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry; Nevada's Senator William Sharon, Comstock Lode proprietor who entertained President Grant on gold plate in 1879; California Circuit Court Judge M. Hall McAllister, who sired Socialite Ward McAllister; William M. Bourn, whose money bought the Killarney Lakes for the Irish Free State...
...Killarney, Ireland, a tailor produced in court a note of commendation from George Bernard Shaw as evidence of his skill. Interposed the judge: "I've noticed that Mr. Shaw wears the most appalling clothes...