Word: raconteur
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...occasionally flashes back to the Limerick life portrayed in Angela's Ashes, Malachy chiefly recounts what happened to him after his arrival in New York City in 1952, when he was 20. He worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit and raconteur, became an off-Broadway actor, appeared with Jack Paar on the Tonight show, tended bar as part owner of an East Side joint named Malachy's and later, down on his luck, smuggled gold ingots strapped about his portly person into India...
...former Boston mayor and famous political raconteur James Michael Curley defeated incumbent Thomas Eliot by only 7000 votes...
According to his grandson, Brendan Frank of Boston, Perry was a "raconteur, sailor, an accomplished designer/carpenter and a man deeply committed to the conservation and enjoyment of the salt marshes of Massachusetts," as quoted in the Boston Globe...
Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oral historian, journalist, radio host and raconteur, moved deftly from generalizations to particulars...
...West Texas town of Spur (pop. 1,300), where the tumbleweed can outnumber the pickup trucks and the restaurant of choice is the local Dairy Queen. The son is Aaron Latham, 53, a Manhattan-based novelist and screenwriter (Urban Cowboy) and, child of Texas that he is, a splendid raconteur...