Word: sassenachs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual director of the nuns, Canon Peart decides, under the prodding of the local legal shark, to sue for libel and defamation of character - he needs the money to pay for that dry bathroom which was necessary for the dignity of the parish. Suing the Sassenach and his newspaper seems the answer...
...descends only when Malachy, the Patrickstown simpleton, is vouchsafed a vision of the Virgin, and the populace turns from litigation to religion. Not, however, before the Irish, who stand "on the periphery of chaos," move into dead center and, in the book's most comic turn, infect the Sassenach with their own fey reasoning. "The bog water is rapidly rising in my brain," Butler finds, and obedient to the hypnosis that compels non-Irish reporters to write in a kind of stage Irish when describing St. Patrick's Day parades, he begins to talk in the wild, oblique...
...only supporter in the mayoral race of Vincent R. Impellitteri. Added Bertie': "They call him 'Impy.' I suggest he spell it: 'Im Pelley Terry,' so the Italians can take him for a 'Wop,' the English, so numerous in New York, for a Sassenach, and the Irish for a 'Turk.'" The colonel refused to be ruffled by the victory of international-minded Tom Dewey. It "is not a matter of remorse," said Bertie "because [Democrat Walter A.] Lynch was just as bad, and, outside of New York, Dewey is dead politically anyhow...