Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babb, who was named last week as a contributor to the isolationist America First Committee. Said he: "I am thoroughly in accord with the principles of the America First Committee." The Committee opposed the Lend-Lease Bill, has opposed the transfer of war supplies to Britain, recently received a pat on the back in a radio broadcast from Berlin. Last week, fast-talking Mr. Christoffel and owlish, wealthy Mr. Babb glared at each other over the thicket of their differences. Thorniest was the issue of the closed shop...
Because of the resignation of Pat Johnson, Varsity wrestling coach, the grapplers are being thrown by the problem of who will succeed him. Official H.A.A. News sources refuse to disclose the name of his successor, but it is generally expected that Clarence E. Boston will take over Johnson's duties next year...
...Pound and Eliot are not the only anti-Miltonians. There are also Middleton Murry, Herbert Read, Bonamy Dobree. Against their stock charges of Milton's logorrhea, his maulings of English syntax, his Puritan intolerance, his philosophic narrowness. Defender Smith has a pat answer - "Not the thing said makes poetry, but a way of saying it." Milton "is world-great," says Smith quoting Carlyle on Dante, "not because he is worldwide, but because he is world-deep...
Nevertheless, Nevada's Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA act, trumpeted on the floor of the Senate: "This legalized murder should stop." He sat tousle-headed and glaring while bumbling Alben Barkley tried to defend Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization of CAA which abolished the crack, independent Air Safety Board. A Senate subcommittee will investigate the Atlanta crash. And when Pat McCarran's bill to set aside Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization comes to hearing, there will be plenty of fireworks...
...dapper little Pat Rooney took up at Tony Pastor's where his famous dad had left off, danced and sang his way to vaudeville immortality with Rosie O'Grady and a ballad about one Mr. Reilly so enchantingly delivered that everybody has wanted to live Mr. Reilly's life ever since. Last week, 51 years after his debut, and with his own son, Pat Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose...