Word: shamrocked
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...Galahad. Wham! Whomp! Thunk! Glunk! The Kid in the white satin trunks with the shamrock-green piping is down. The ringside crowd is up and roaring. "Sev-hin, A-yut, Nigh-yen"-the Kid's up again. He's bleeding at the mouth. How much more of this grueling punishment can the Kid take? Well, say another 15 or 20 solid punches right in the kisser. But don't sell the Kid short. He has a heart of gold and a head of lead. When his eyes begin to look like two fried eggs...
...Press: "Maxine" in big fat letters above the name of her column. "Big City Beat." As for Roberts, the king of Houston's columnists is learning to share his realm, has tried to call off the one-way public feud. "I stopped her one night at the Shamrock." he says, "and told her: 'Max, I don't want this.' " Max's reaction: "Great, it's about time...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy as the curly-headed machine politician (James Michael Curley, that is) who ran Boston in blarney and shamrock...
...former view. Though he grouched about Joseph Dinneen's biography and Edwin O'Connor's novel, he seemed immensely to enjoy the renewed attention they brought him. He gave the books away with such genial inscriptions as may be found in Lamont's copy of The Purple Shamrock: "To Jack: From one swindler to another. Jim Curley...
...Last Hurrah (John Ford; Columbia) is based on Edwin O'Connor's 1956 bestseller about the bad old days when political machines were run on blarney, graft, openhanded charity and shamrock oil, and about the last of the great Irish-American city bosses in the grand, 19th century manner-a man, the author protests, who is not to be confused with ex-Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston...