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...that the lace-curtain shanty Irish is not an insulting epithet but a whimsey originating among the Irish, repeated among themselves and to non-Irish friends, quoted by the latter-always with quote marks implied by the intonation. Several years ago an Irish friend told me a more recent ver sion, which classified Irish-Americans into "the clean lace-curtain Irish, and the dirty Venetian-blind Irish...
after death, The undisco'ver'd country from whose
This week the Eisenhowers came down from the mountains for a visit in Den ver at Great-Grandmother Doud's. "He's a good boy," said Ike, swelling with grandfatherly pride. "He does exactly what you tell...
Nunc iterum ver et ardor adest; Musae et Venus placido de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; histriones classici foriter vigescunt. Sed quales Musae nobis? Plautinae? Et qualis Venus? Secunda? Immo edepol severae Musae tragoediae quibus tantum borribiles irae et mortes pallidae placent. Et non Venus benigna inter nos incedit sed illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas...
STANLEY D. VER NOOY JR. Bergenfield...