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Benevolent Patriarch. The influence of The Bronx goes deeper in Meany than his reading tastes or his accent, which turns work into "woik" and oil into "erl." He is the benevolent patriarch of a large, Irish-Catholic family, much like the ones he knew while growing up and learning the trade of a plumber. Meany and his wife Eugenia ("Gena"), now 78, have three daughters and 13 grandchildren, all clustered in the Washington area. There is a lingering air of life in exile about the family...
...Brooklynites say woik for work, but so do a lot of Southerners. Many Southerners say cah for car, and so do Bostonians...
...last man in the world they'd like to be left alone with on a desert island. That honor moved him to say: "Tings like dat is all advertising. Good for yuh. As for dem college graduates, I know some. Mostly bus boys tryin' to woik deir way up to waiters...
Asked his opinion on the Roosevelt administration, Pete issued the following statement: "Roosevelt, he good man. N. R. A. is good thing. But it hurt my woik. Last Saturday I tattoo elephant on man from Brockton. I am all finish except elephant's trunk. It is midnight. I have to quit, 'cause N. R. A. say I no can woik except 48 hours one week. I have leave elephant without no trunk. Man from Brockton, he won't pay me. He say elephant is walrus, not elephant. He get mad, I have throw...
...this grand master?" asked the reporter. "He live on Coney Island. He do hundred tattoos every day. He can woik without use only one hand. He woik for big bankers. One time he tattoo senator from Washington. He very famous...