Word: limerick
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...Irish both in locale of its scenes and soul of its makers, who include the Maine-born director, John Ford (real name: Sean O'Fearna). As if to disprove W. B. Yeats's old lament, "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone," Ford fought his way through Limerick and Galway and Dublin, pushing his cameras and a troupe of Ireland's best actors before him. In dramatic meanderings most of the commonplaces of the native character are trotted forth-that the Irish are unpredictably gay and gloomy by turns, revile England, drink prodigiously, talk blarney sideways...
...George Limerick slipped the puck past goalie Andy Newell late in the final period for the only Arlington tally...
...Limerick, Ireland...
...KEANE Limerick, Ireland...
...else at the time) or a changeling-the adopted daughter of gypsies (her favorite fantasy, which psychologists will recognize). Was Francisco Montes, the famous bullfighter, her father? (He denied it.) Was she born in Turkey? India? Her real name was Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and she came from Limerick. At all events, she liked to wear black, was on the stage, had tiny feet and enormous eyes. Her whole life was as absurd as a Verdi opera plot adapted for the wide screen...