Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearish" on industrial stocks-a prediction which the subsequent market declines emphatically justified. Wall Street, half-persuaded to turn bullish on the present low money rates, has waited to see "when Livermore would cheer up" and take the lead in "putting 'em up." But Mr. Livermore still stands pat. In a recent interview, the famed operator stated his opinion and his reasons for it. He feels that it takes more than simply cheap money to make a bull market, and pointed out that recently we had had bull markets when money was high. Mr. Livermore still believes that there...
GOLF WITHOUT TEARS-P. G. Wode-house-Doran ($2.50). A beguiling round of golf stories, diverting enough to amuse even the non-golfer. These breezy, non-classic, ultra-American dissertations on the Great Game are touchingly dedicated to "the immortal memory of John Henrie and Pat Rogie who at Edinburgh, in the year 1593 A. D., were imprisoned for playing of the gowf on the links of Leith every Sabbath the time of the sermonses...
There was Copeland of New York wearing his inevitable red carnation, and McKellar of Tennessee, who became irate because the Chair did not see him when he rose. Underwood of Alabama came and went, playing an unobtrusive part in the front row. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the great denunciator, remained for the most part silent, save when he rose to deliver one of his thunderbolts across the House. Two rows further back, pince-nez on nose, sat the sententious Ashurst of Arizona, intent on periodically expressing himself with great deliberation, learning and politeness. King of Utah, very 'businesslike, examined every...
...contrast, Henry Cabot Lodge came and went like a silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to recline in the background with legs stretched out and jacket tightly buttoned...
...closing of Congress gave Senator Pat Harrison some fine opportunities to tongue-lash Republicans, and he was not slow to seize his opportunities...