Word: patly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Isidro Ayora, who, besides being his country's foremost surgeon, is a sort of Ecuadorian Hamilton under whom Ecuadorian finances have been reborn, was at the pier to offer Mr. Hoover a hearty abrazo (hug and back-pat), which Mr. Hoover accepted and deftly returned. The nation's leading newspaper announced that this was "one of the greatest events in the history of Ecuador, a never-to-be-forgotten day." At the reception, the Ayora speech mentioned Washington, Lincoln, Wilson. The Hoover speech mentioned the surplus (first on record) in Ecuador's treasury...
...reception. Guests heard him speak on the scope of Schubert 'Week, heard Olga Samaroff outline the plans of a Schubert Memorial to help talented young U. S. musicians, heard Young Pianist Jerome Rappaport in evidence, heard the Musical Art Quartet. For refreshment then, there were vast quantities of paté de fois gras, chicken à la king, ice cream, cakes, cigarets, coffee. Some imagined later they had been served Scotch highballs, champagne cocktails, mixed by Brother Felix Kahn...
Since the U. S. is supervising on Nov. 4, 1928, the Presidential Election of Nicaragua (TIME, Oct. 8), the tidings of the week from Managua, Nicaraguan Capital, seemed pat and timely...
...Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist, and Coach Pat Page of Indiana, bringing to their rough game a quality hitherto prized only in tea-shops and New England villages, began talking about "football atmosphere" ... In the "Western Conference" so called, Illinois, with 20 lettermen returned, was favored to win another championship...
...have before me copy of the newsmagazine for July 2, 1928. On page 25 you have published a slanderous story and coupled my name with it, which is absolutely false. I can only conclude that you are thinking of one Pat Smith of Bridgeport, Conn., who has had the audacity to use my name and of whom I know nothing except what the newspapers report. There is absolutely no connection between him and my family, and so far as I know he is not a Gipsy...