Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans lost Senate seats in both Nevada and Kentucky. In the former, Democrat Alan Bible, a protege of the late Senator Pat McCarran, defeated the Republican Senator Ernest Brown. And in Kentucky former Vice-President Alben Barkley unseated liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper...
Democrats have strong prospects for taking two seats presently held by Republicans. They are in Nevada and Wyoming. In the last decade, Nevada Republicans have won only with help from Democrat Pat McCarran, whose feuds within his own party sometimes caused him to support the G.O.P. By gubernatorial appointment, Republican Ernest S. Brown now tentatively holds the Senate place left vacant by McCarran's death. He will not get the necessary McCarranite votes; his opponent, Alan Bible, was one of the old man's most devoted followers...
...drawers it adorns the left knee." For the new rich there was advice on etiquette. Sample: "A word about the treatment of servants. One should always be kind to them. I always make it a point to be scrupulously civil to inferiors. I frequently stop in the street to pat a vagrant dog on the head or to say a kind word to a horse...
...expected, the harshest words of the evening were reserved for Furcolo. "A vote for Foster Furcolo," said Schlesinger, "would be a vote for a young Pat McCarran in the U.S. Senate...
Trial Run. In Eureka. Mont., Pat Wager, candidate for town constable, went on a campaign tour of several bars, decided he was as good as elected, jailed three citizens, landed in jail himself for disturbing the peace...