Word: muckers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, The Green Fool, the autobiography of a sort of Irish Jesse Stuart, is one of the most plum-Irish volumes in a month of Sundays. Born in Mucker (corrupted Gaelic for "good pig-raising place"), County Monaghan, Patrick Kavanagh was "a bit of a lazybones, a bit of a liar and a bit of a rogue." He quit school at 12, worked on farms, joined the Irish Republican Army, learned poaching and desultory banditry, went to all the weddings, wakes, funerals, became highly learned in Mucker legend, superstitions, gossip, cunning...
...brawny lad of 20 before he heard there were any good living poets in Ireland, he published his first poems shortly after in the Irish Statesman, made a pilgrimage to Dublin. Tramping back to Mucker pronouncing the Irish gods and heroes dead, the fairies driven underground, Poet Kavanagh concluded: "Writers leave Ireland because sentimental praise, or hysterical pietarian dispraise, is no use in the mouth of a hungry...
Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...
...riot which followed the last Yale-Princeton football game, Yale's President James Rowland Angell declaimed: "There will be no general, much less complete, cure until our American college groups, both graduate and undergraduate, come to realize that bad manners and poor sportsmanship are the marks of the mucker. . .." Honest President Angell stopped, reflected. "I have a piece of a goal post myself," he confessed, then quickly weaseled: "It was presented to me, however...
Died. George Wylie Paul ("Old Roman") Hunt, 75. seven times Governor of Arizona, onetime (1920-21) Minister to Siam; of heart disease after an attack of bronchitis; in Phoenix, Ariz. A onetime copper mine mucker, he served 14 years in Arizona's Territorial Legislature before he was chosen president of its constitutional convention, then in 1912, first Governor of the new State. He served more terms as Governor of a state than any other man in U. S. history...