Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, also a Democrat, hardhitting, fierce-tongued orator, he who made the keynote speech of the last Democratic Convention...
...Chamber of Deputies proposed to give the lesser functionaries of the Civil Service a bonus of 500 francs ($25.00) as compensation for a delay in revising their salaries. The Senate objected. The Chamber insisted. The Senate was adamant. The Chamber sat pat. The Senate weakened, finally passed the necessary bill by a majority of twelve votes...
...daily tidings from afar. He has fattened and sleekened every page, stinting nothing to give his creature an air of brisk, full-blooded opulence and suavity. Where the Times drones and expatiates with the pensiveness of a scholarly, grey bearded statistician; where the Herald-Tribune stands brightly but carefully pat like a promising young member of the Stock Exchange; where the World, like a self-made man with brains, ideals and a deep vein of cynicism, cloaks terse and forceful thought beneath a lively flow of front-page vulgarity; where the Sun, heavy but active, moves with a great gloom...
...President laughed out loud when he heard that the returns were: "Coolidge, 909; Davis, 630" in a certain ward in the city of Gulf port (Miss.) where resides the Hon. Pat. Harrison, arch-scoriator of the Senate and the Keynote of the Democratic Convention which "flayed the Republicans alive...
...atop the tennis world these several years, looked down beneath him and selected ten players who seemed to him to reach upwards nearest to the judgment seat: 1) Vincent Richards, 2) William M. Johnston, 3) Rene La Coste, France, 4) Gerald L. Patterson, Australia, 5) Manuel Alonso, Spain, 6) Pat O'hara Wood, Australia, 7) Jean Borotra, France, 8) Howard Kinsey, 9) Henri Cochet, France, 10) Baron de Morpurgo, Italy...