Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Messrs. Mencken and Nathan exchanged a bilious fish eye, carefully adjusted their elegant opera cloaks, gave a final pat to the knap of their ritzy beaver bats, donned their immaculate white capeskin gloves and stalked up the aisle amid envious glances...
...church was appraised. As is usual at such gatherings, an older man was first called upon to speak, in this case Dr. Hubert Herring, social secretary of a Boston, Mass., church. With a flair for pat and alliterative statements, he said: "The man in the street has come to regard the church purely as an agency for propaganda ... as an organization that is trying to mesmerize him with soft music and big buildings. . . . The church has become too much institutionalized- something that may be summed up by using three B's-bishops, buildings and budgets...
...government course in naval aviation open to Harvard men which has been conducted at M. I. T. for the pat two years will be repeated this year, and is scheduled to open with an illustrated lecture on January 7, it was announced last night...
...ought not to be an easy task for a man of Mr. Dawes' tempera- ment. Already it is apparent what j things may be said of him. Sen- ator Pat Harrison, whip-tongued I keynoter and fire-eater from Mis- sissippi, has unleashed his vocal chords, calling "strikes" derisively against any Republican who may come to bat. Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction...
...Brickley tore off sixty yards and kicked a goal as well: Eddie Mahan went around the end and gave the Elis hell: O'Brein pasted Rafferty, assisted by Mike Shea: Kilpatric fook Tom Shevlin's place and messed up Pat...