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Word: muckross (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

This is logic, but it is Anglo-Irish logic. Herbert's family come from Muckross. The Herbert argument may be found in Shaw and Joyce. It may be heard in any Irish bar. The man who said, "Nobody has any sense in this world unless he hasn't and he's a fool too" was using such logic. He had just been burnt out, with apologies, by his devoted tenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Mar. 10, 1952 | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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