When I was 10 or 11 years old, a movie company came to town to do this Burt Reynolds movie, shamus.
shamus Award–winning author Peter Spiegelman returns with this psychologically thrilling novel.
And he asked shamus, but he pretended he was ill—Oh, he was very unwell!
The recitation of "shamus O'Brien" seemed tame by comparison.
Then shamus began to walk slowly away, and the Queen followed.
"You do not badly for a beginner," said he when shamus had finished.
"Good," said shamus, and away he went to seek the King of the Gnomes.
So shamus took his harp and began to play his song of running water.
Then shamus began to play, softly at first and then louder and louder.
shamus told her the story of his wanderings and produced the goblet.
"police officer, detective," 1920, apparently first in "The Shamus," a detective story published that year by Harry J. Loose (1880-1943), a Chicago police detective and crime writer; the book was marketed as "a true tale of thiefdom and an expose of the real system in crime." The word is said to be probably from Yiddish shames, literally "sexton of a synagogue" ("a potent personage only next in influence to the President" [Israel Zangwill]), from Hebrew shamash "servant;" influenced by Celtic Seamus "James," as a typical name for an Irish cop.
noun
[fr Yiddish, ''sexton of a synagogue,'' fr Hebrew shamash, ''servant''; perhaps influenced by the Celtic name Seamus, ''James,'' as a typical name of an Irish police officer]
