Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy, intimate way, Howard Vincent ("Pat") O'Brien gave his public what he thought they wanted-"pathos comes first, humor second, with 'big thoughts' (economics, politics, etc.) trailing badly." His column in the Chicago Daily News, called "All Things Considered," was just that: pleasant musings about cats, commuting, sunspots, watercolors, dishwashing and his daughter's debut...
This spring, Pat O'Brien began to write about a new topic-his illness. From a hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property...
Only once did Pat O'Brien let his real suffering slip past his lips: "Science is wonderful . . . but I sometimes envy my ancestors who died too early to know how painfully life can be prolonged." Last week, at 59, Pat O'Brien's pain ended...
...Last week, in a speech at Portland, Ore., William Z. Foster, national chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, gave Wallace a pat on the back, indicated that he was Foster's choice for President...
Fame. As a promotion stunt, Porters, a furniture store in Racine, Wis., has lent umbrellas to some 7,000 shoppers marooned by rain. Gratefully, all but three of the shoppers have returned the umbrellas. Porters' reward: A pat on the back from the American Education Press's My Weekly Reader, which cited this as an example of the inherent honesty of the public...