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There was another side of the picture. Cheery Margaret Toner, wife of a laborer, looked around her squalid 200-year-old cottage and said: "Wot, this hole? They could pull it down tonight for all I care...
...boys taking over the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, the terrible days of gunfire, burning, looting. O'Casey, with hundreds of others, was corralled and locked up by British soldiers. "Th' wild Irish," said a soldier then; "drink goes to their 'eads. Wot was bitin' em? Barmy, th' lot of 'em. Wot did they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich lingo of Juno and the Paycock, the legendary and the tragic, real Ireland of The Plough...
...half-pint ratings from the Submarine Service, two burly noncoms from the Grenadier Guards. A tipsy ex-Tommy wanted to bet five pounds to four on Oxford and got no takers. A radio blared. Said Gus: "The boat race, it's dying out, that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing, but some of the old drink-it-up spirit was gone. People generally stayed...
...most part, their spoken words lost meaning in newsprint. None quoted last week came closer to the common English heart than the words of a British private during the Presidential campaign last year: "Wot do I know about it? All I know is this: there's bloody little future 'ere. . . .But blokes what come through ought to 'ave the right to decent 'omes, decent wages and money enough to put by to take care of our babies. I've seen F.D.R...
...already had 16 members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...