Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools teach boys. . . . Tennis is the real major sport.'" Wilhelm: "Irresponsible American newspapers talked of a breach between me and my bride when she left for Germany. The New York Times truthfully reports: 'There are, indeed, periods when the pair are on very affectionate terms.' " Pat Collins, M. P.: "I took part in a spirited debate in the House of Commons over a bill to prevent cruelty in training animals. Sir F. Banbury described breaking horses. I told about my 30 lions. Mr. Groves told about training fleas. Some one objected that there was no provision...
Engaged. Lady Evelyn Farquhar of Montreal, widow of Col. Farquhar, who commanded Princess Pat's regiment, to Mr. Dougal Malcolm, nephew of the Duke of Wellington...
...cups of tea and a cigar satisfy. Ed Wynn, but Billy Sunday demands griddle cakes. Mary Garret Hay is perhaps the most unusual. Breakfast appeals to her "not only physically, but esthetically". She ecstatically insists that "a fine bunch of grapes or a golden orange, crisp rolls, a dainty pat of butter, and good coffee sending up a delicious aroma, etc., etc., etc. . . . constitute a breakfast that is perfect for civilized man". But though these "artistic tastes" do catch the eye, it is yet undiscovered whether Captain Abdullah or athletic Ed' Wynn is the more afflicted with dyspepsia...
...these cases, all the blue-book phrases-and pen-point terms of the undergraduate are rendered useless; in fact, he might have slept through all his brain fresh. Neo-platonism, Transcendentalism, and all the other pat lecture-room labels go by the board--to drag them into a psychological test would only prove that he had not "the brains he was born with". Nor is the graduate better served. Experience, practice in practical affairs, greater maturity get him no more than a gentlemanly "satisfactory" when he competes with his children or grandchildren...
...discussions an especial effort will be made to get away from the stiff format style of debating which has characterized American college debating in the pat. The men who speak are expected to speak from the conviction that their side is right and not because they have been assigned that side...