Word: shamrocked
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...shamrock and the sickle were once comrades on their uppers. In 1920, delegations from revolutionary Ireland and revolutionary Russia came to the U.S. to raise funds and beg recognition. Moscow's men had much less luck; they got so stony broke that Dublin's men lent them $20,000. For security, the Russians gave the Irish four pieces of jewelry (diamonds, rubies and sapphires), presumably from the Romanov crown collection...
Most imposing of all is McCarthy's showy and opulent new Shamrock Hotel. In causing its white, glass-tiered, palm-bordered bulk to rise above the Texas coastal plain, McCarthy endowed Houston with the Southwest's most luxurious hostelry-a soft-carpeted, $21 million palace which boasts French cooking (filet mignon: $11), air-conditioned bedrooms with both push-button radio and Muzak, afternoon tea served to string music and big-name dinner entertainers like Edgar Bergen and Dorothy Lamour...
Wearing of the Green. In its purest sense the Shamrock is less a hotel than a kind of Versailles, and it is almost impossible to enter without being reminded that its Louis is none other than Glenn McCarthy. A large oil portrait of the proprietor hangs on a wall flanking the lobby elevator doors; framed there, with folded arms, tumbled hair and an expression reminiscent of both Maxie Rosenbloom and Barrymore's Hamlet, he stares austerely at all who enter. The portrait's eyes are said to soften slightly when McCarthy confronts it in the flesh...
Danger. He never quit plunging, and the Shamrock, his big chemical company (which is reported losing money) and his endless drilling ventures have been great financial drains. Last week Houston was alive with a titillating rumor: that its most flamboyant citizen was strapped for cash. In the last few years, McCarthy has borrowed $50 million from big insurance companies, using as security his vast oil reserves (calculated at from 100 to 200 million barrels). The trouble with reserves is that they are still underground. With oil prices falling and recent sharp cuts in oil production quotas ordered by the state...
...Houston, rough, tough Oilman Glenn McCarthy is known as a man with plenty of irons in the fire and plenty of greenbacks to stoke it. He had built the $21 million Shamrock Hotel, put millions of his own and borrowed money into chemical plants, a radio station, oilfields, natural gas, real estate. But last week many a Houston citizen blinked in surprise. Glenn McCarthy had asked RFC for a $70 million loan...