Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor the Democrats scoffed at these peace gestures-and who could scoff better than Sen. Pat Harrison, the jester from Mississippi? Grinning malignantly at the Republican side of the Chamber, he said: You've had political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...
...taken quite a brace since then. It's a big boy now, and on its way to New York for a good time. Its parents took it to Atlantic City, and all the people on the boardwalk crowded around to pat it on the head. Its reception was only exceeded by that accorded George White's Scandals, which seems to prove that next to legs the American public likes lumps in its throat...
Married. Patrick A. ("Pat") McKenna, doorkeeper for five Presidents and still on duty; to one Marguerite A. Smith; in Washington. He did not inform anyone, even President Coolidge...
...conflicting keys, restless violins traced his vagaries of flower girls and Creoles in the Debussy manner, gossiping women, fishwives taken rag and bone from Stravinsky. Critics damned it, called it dull, found the Mozart and the Schumann a little tiresome too. They blamed the first on the breathless pat-a-pat reading of Conductor Damrosch, the second on the frigid finger tips of Pianist Cortot. All praise went to two Debussy Nocturnes that came after intermission: Clouds moving slowly, solemnly, now white, now grey, now reflecting the pale splendor of a dying sun; Festivals with its wise laughter, frail...
Back to Canton went Pat McDermott, to answer a lot of questions. The Canton "jungle" seethed with excitement...