Word: leprechaun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lemass, and casting about for new clients for the W. & G. kooky jar. "We never solicit business," straight-faces Joe Weiner from San Francisco, "we wait for business." But he was not laying odds that another large chunk of the Green would not come under the spell of Adopted Leprechaun Gossage...
Ireland's O'Kelly, having weathered a New York ticker-tape parade and the Washington ceremonial circuit, including St. Patrick's Day at the White House, was bounding about Chicago like a leathery leprechaun. Proving himself of noble stuff, he managed to down such items as green rice, green clam chowder and green cookies without turning green himself. Steadfastly refusing to discuss political issues, he was nonetheless proud of his calling: "I have been a politician all my life. There is no nobler profession-except perhaps that of the church." Bussing and blarneying almost every woman...
...brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker. To doubt his most outrageous argument is to deal him a mortal affront. But doubters there are. For Walter is a complicated soul. When there are two ways to do a thing, he chooses the oblique. Part leprechaun and part literal-minded lawyer, he disconcerts friends with a Groucho Marxist air of insincerity. Yet he walks among foes with the grave and wary eyes of an honest man lost among a legion of pickpockets...
Truman Capote's plays and novels are probably contemporary America's closest approach to Leprechaun literature. Their atmosphere and characters embody a childlike, wistful world which, if and when it is forced to meet tawdry reality, usually leaves the encounter with a gently victorious smile...
Irreverent Newcomer. For Daugherty has neither the portentous air nor commanding presence of the typical big-time football coach. He is cheerfully irreverent in a profession of solemn ulcer cases, a merry man with an Irishman's gregariousness and a leprechaun's smile. He has known the bitterness of defeat, when in 1954 he inherited a team of Big Ten co-champions and lost six out of nine games. He has known the joy of triumph, when his Spartans last year rolled over Big Ten opposition and into the Rose Bowl to defeat U.C.L.A...