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Please enjoy these old time radio episodes: Show 25 shows on page Show 50 shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show shows on page Show All shows on page Air Date Title Synopsis Rating Spoiler : Always like Bendix, but recently read rumors he wasn't that nice of a person.

Spoiler : ya gotta love it. Spoiler : Always wondered where that expression came from! The phrase came into common usage around the time of WWI. Quotation marks are usually added to phrases that the readership might be unfamiliar with. There are none in the above citation so it's reasonable to suggest that 'the life of Riley' was known to the New Jersey populace in It might seem strange that this expression originated in the USA rather than Ireland. However, there were probably more Rileys in New York then in Dublin at that date.

Many of these would have migrated to look for a better life in America and some of them would have found it - and hence lived the life of Riley. The phrase was much used in the military, especially in WWI. The first known citation in that context is in a letter from a Sergeant Leonard A. In the letter Monzert wrote that he and his pals were 'living the life of Reilly'. Other similar letters from US servicemen claimed to have been living the life of Reilly while at war in France.

How much truth there was in the letters and how much was propaganda to reassure the folks back home isn't clear. With hindsight we can be sure that any soldier's life during the First World War was no picnic.

It included in the chorus "Is that Mr. Reilly, of whom they speak so highly? Like most other Irish songs of the era, it played to the Irish audience - this one with a dash of anti-Chinese racism thrown in for luck the Chinese were 'Reilly's' principal competitors for manual work in the USA at the time :. His sto Read all Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.

His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is! See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Photos 3. Add photo. Top cast Edit. William Bendix Chester A. Riley as Chester A. Riley …. Emory Parnell Hawkins as Hawkins ….

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