Word: lanergan
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Because rewritemen could not find in the News's files anything about the Lonergans, nightclub pressagents were called, reporters were hustled to addresses where the Lonergans had formerly lived. The files were finecombed again, this time yielded one society item filed under "Lanergan."* From it the Newsmen got the name of Patricia's mother, went to work...
...personage, to those of the man overhead whose rowing-weights send forth a most distressing discord, half rumble, half squeak, or, still worse, whose religious enthusiasm finds its vent in practising Tabernacle tunes on a reed-organ. No sane person would hesitate to decide that "Just in time for Lanergan's ball" rendered on a good hand-organ by jist the very boy that knows all about that same himsilf, is more worthy of hearing than a disjointed howl of "Where art thou now, my beloved?" by the unmusical soul who comes up stairs taking three steps to each word...
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