Word: blarney
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...smart Joe Jacobs got Battling Siki, a coal-black African, to defend his world's light-heavyweight championship against his own boy, Mike McTigue. as Irish as the Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter, he snitched Max Schmeling from the German manager who had brought him to the U. S., publicized him as the "German Dempsey," and, by storming into the ring and yelling "Foul" when Jack Sharkey hit Schmeling a questionably low blow, is generally credited with winning the world's heavyweight championship...
...lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...