Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strongman Frank Berst of the New York Athletic Club: the weight-throwing championship of the Amateur Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record...
Curly-haired Pat Boland hardly ever talked in the House, worked quietly in the halls and cloakrooms which are the whip's domain. Fervent Bob Ramspeck has made many impassioned speeches for his favorite causes. But he also knows the slick-floored, smoky, gossip-filled cloakrooms as few Congressmen...
Children of desperation, the Home Guardsmen could well receive a pat on their collective head for the way they had grown up. They numbered 1,600,000 men and boys, with a backlog of hundreds of thousands of others who were not so useful (American: good) at drilling but were well prepared to drop their garden tools for hand grenades when the whistle blew...
...windows, will replace some of the skylights with wood and put chicken wire under the rest. Led by Fireman Thomas Hughes, a retired New York Battalion Chief, 125 museum attendants practice regularly, dashing about the halls with twelve baby-buggy-like fire trucks. The museum has its drills so pat that public and staff can clear out in three minutes...
...fortune. The following year she opened Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1934, in the course of a bitter legal battle, she won from her widowed sister-in-law, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, custody (five days a week) of Gloria Jr., then ten, now Mrs. Pat di Cicco...