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Word: patly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...biggest pair of shoes that ever walked out of Mississippi" belonged, according to Senator Pat Harrison of that State, to John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator, who now dozes in gardenia-scented retirement on his plantation near Yazoo City, Miss. To fill the Williams shoes, Mississippi sent to Washington Hubert Durett Stephens, a man who was considered brilliant as a youth because he started practicing law at the tender age of 20, but who has yet to distinguish himself either as a shoe-filler or as a Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Southern Senators | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...thirty is my bedtime and I refuse to crawl in earlier just because there's a little job of flying over the Atlantic to be done tomorrow." It was midnight when he finally retired, in the room next to that of his eight-year-old daughter Pat, who, he said, "doesn't give a hump about all this flying." The Germans, strange figures in Ireland, plodded back to their quarters, the Baron to play a final game of solitaire, the phlegmatic Captain to make a final study of weather charts before turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dublin to Labrador | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Dublin, Mrs. Fitzmaurice put Baby Pat to bed, and kept an all-night vigil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Dublin to Labrador | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Depew | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Since last autumn, the stock-market price of John D. Ryan's* Montana Power Co. shares have gone up and down queerly. Since January 1 their quotations have ranged between $102.25 and $169.50. Last week, trading in the stock became steady at $165.50 a share; and pat upon that situation, Mr. Ryan who theretofore had always smiled mockingly at offers to buy the company, let it be known that he and other directors had agreed to sell out to the American Power & Light Co., for the equivalent of $166 a share. That is, they were trading each of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Montana Power | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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