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...exact number of relatives to whom he flung the bounteous purse of the city pay-roll was declared, after investigation, to be 39. And the thirty-nine McQuades have occupied and will occupy a foremost place in the annals of municipal government in America, rubbing shoulders with their fellow townsmen, Tweed and Croker, Walker and Mugs O'Brien...
...hours between noon and three or four o'clock at least two quarts of hard cider, probably a modification of the modern applejack, and three pints of rum. From here the party must have continued from room to room, for there is the notable addition of some townsmen and several young ladies during the course of the evening...
...dinnertime Judge Duer was suddenly called from table to try to disperse the growing mob. "How about Euel Lee!" the townsmen cried at the judge. Euel Lee, a crazed black, had killed a farmer, his wife and two children two years before in an adjoining county, was not until last week condemned to death. "We ain't gonna have no Euel Lee in Somerset County...
Dermod of the Cooas and a curragh full of townsmen win the boat race...
...Gogarty, who is a poet, doctor, and senator of the Irish Free State, has been the intimate friend of George Moore, Yeats, "A. E.," Synge, James Stephens, and James Joyce, his famous fellow-townsmen. Despite the brilliance of this company, Gogarty always fascinates his friends. When he talks, piling imagination with breath-taking invention, they listen and remember. One of his companions describes him as "overflowing with wit, gaiety, laughter, and Aristophanic joy." It was in Gogarty's garden that George Moore conceived the idea for "Ave, Salve, Vale." An apple tree in Gogarty's garden was the inspiration...