Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine in the origin of Rotary." Its statements are dignified nowadays and Rotarians will smile indulgently if they read in the June American Mercury that St. Patrick has been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary no longer needs imaginary prestige. It has its own. Such men as Commander Francesco de Pinedo have accepted honorary Rotaryhood. Into the teeth of Novelist Sinclair Lewis' castigations Rotary now can fling George Bernard Shaw's retort: "Any sort...
President Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central R.R. last week asked permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission to become a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R., in which his company recently bought a one-sixth interest, and of four W.&L.E. subsidiaries. Under the law, which aims to prevent the nefarious interlocking of railroad directorates, he was required to submit to the I.C.C. the names of railroads in which he already is a director. There were 102 railroads in his list. So when the I.C.C. grants his latest request, Mr. Crowley, nicknamed "Pull 80 Cars...
Frisco Sally Levy (Sally O'Neil, Roy D'Arcy). The business of an Irish wife's cooking gefuellte fish for her Jewish spouse, introducing Police Officer Patrick Sweeney to the Lapidowitz family, etc., will never cease, agree pessimists...
...essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry. Actress Anglin's distinction, as everyone knows, was a long career in classical roles, especially Shakespearean, and a lifelong feeling that she "could not act the part of a sinful, murderous woman." Acting President the Rev. Patrick J. Carroll of Notre Dame said: "She has kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature...
...President appeared in his office with his right wrist swollen, bandaged. Cause: undefined and perhaps undefinable*. . . . He watched workmen on the roof of the White House, suddenly retreated eight yards. Cause: a crane dangling lumber above his head. . . . Mrs. Coolidge wore a green scarf. Cause: St. Patrick...