Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is another legend on the Gillette blade wrappers, the last and smallest line of all. It needs no emphasis nor interpretation, being firm and final. It says: "Reg. U. S. Pat. Off." The company needs hardly worry for feat purchasers will defy those words...
...Pat after his announcement of American Railway Express Co. flying express (TIME, Aug. 29), President Robert E. M. Cowie of the company last week published his flying express rates between 26 air express stops. Rates are effective as of Sept. 1, are given in cents and on the basis of a four-ounce (quarter pound) unit. Between six important cities they...
...country, and especially its Republican politicians, spent the week recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just...
...actually wash her hair in stale beer and herbs, or if she was not the freak of virtue that Mr. Tully has made her, there was surely enough virtue and stale beer about her to make exaggeration more permissible than understatement. If the blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube!" the riot story, that is only because Mr. Tully is a journalist of 0. Henryesque dexterity. Surely irate oil-drillers would spill some of the blood of a short-change artist like Slug Finnerty and a slicker like Slug's boss, Bob Cameron...
When a newspaper correspondent makes an error which gets published, he usually receives a thoroughgoing reprimand in private from his chief. Should he then exert himself to make amends, he is usually patted on the back and told he is "good." But, again, this is done privately. Sometimes, however, the initial fault is so grievous that the correspondent's employers feel obliged to seize the first opportunity to pat the erring one publicly, so that all may know his professional family is still proud...