Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downfall of Patrick Kelly, 10-year-old orphan from New Haven, Conn., was tragic. Patrick had arrived in Washington with 21 textbooks on grammar and spelling, including a "dictionary" by Patrick Kelly, containing over 4,000 words hard to spell. Somehow he had overlooked "blackguard," and when the word-giver pronounced it, "blaggard," Patrick said, "Huh ?", and then spelled it just the way it sounded. Every one liked Patrick...
...dozen towns in Tennessee with telegraphic service were alarmed by the news of the "loss" of Major General Patrick, happy warrior who serves as Chief of the Army Air Service. He had left Memphis by air at 5 o'clock of an evening and had not arrived at expectant Nashville. When he landed at Nashville at 7:55 next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland...
...regrettable that the Dramatic Club should see fit so to waste its time. Patrick Morgan...
...Wellsian-Sanger ian-Onanists who work to defile the temple of the Holy Ghost." The Commonweal, organ of the Calvert Society, replied to Margaret Sanger's opinions by disputing her premises. Other Catholic periodicals of less importance gently rebuked or soundly execrated her. But it was left for Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Arch bishop of New York, in his pastoral letter, last Sunday, to mark out the impassable barrier between birth con trol and the law of his Church. "Latterly, into the public eye has been thrust an open propaganda that shocks the moral sense of every true follower...
...Wottadamshame By me auld mither. I'll ! Ha! Fwhat's this." (Points to picture in Lampoon Reads:) If this be trasin, make the most uv it.. It's trasin enough, by Sint Patrick, an' it's we're the boys to make the most uv it. Away me min! Confisheate the shlanderous rubbish. Don't leave a single copy to pollute the minds uv dacent people...