Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although an occasional pat on the back is a good thing for those of our representatives who are trying to do the right thing, yet there is nothing like a little incisive satire (of which Capp is an accomplished master) for keeping the blatant demagogues under control. Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a type not peculiar to the U.S.A. We are all acquainted with a few Jack S.s, and in some cases a glance in the mirror may reveal the existence of a wholly unsuspected addition to the number...
Every good advertising man has enough Irish to know that a pat phrase should be hit hard with a mike. Super-Salesman Chuck Luckman, who has that kind of Irish, and has rounded up the nation's sharpest advertising talent to help sell his food-conservation campaign, last week was still plugging his favorite theme. He crowed jubilantly: "We are rolling. The people are picking this up." And he added a flat prediction. Around Jan. 1, he said, the Save-Food program for Europe will reach its 100-million-bushel goal...
Like a Butter Pat. By morning, when the danger began to abate, Bar Harbor was a ghost town, surrounded by hot and smoking ruins...
...comparison between the bad rich and the good poor is far too familiar and too pat. The characters she means to portray sympathetically emerge as sentimentally unreal. But her nightclubbing set is alive with sharp-nailed women and men whose roving eyes seek trouble and ensue...
...Sept. 29 issue of Robert S. Allen's book Lucky Forward is the first authentic evaluation of General Patton from the combat soldier's standpoint I've ever read. You bet he wasn't known to the line soldier as "Georgie." It was just plain "Pat-ton." You bet it was "our blood and his guts" as far as combat troops were concerned! A general's position is too remote to make him a hero to his men. . . . We did respect Patton but only as hired help respect any reportedly competent high executive...