Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skehen removed his short clay pipe and gazed reflectively out of the window of his little cabin under Widener gate. "Take St. Patrick's day for instance. I've seen it pouring on Harvard Square and three hundred students out parading in the rain, soaked outside and in. They would stop every block or so to brace up their spirits, and keep on marching. If they stopped for the kind of bracers they get today, no one would ever finish the parade...
...General Patrick, genial Chief of the Army Air Service, in a speech made before the National Republican Club in Manhattan, remarked...
...faculty for instance: Langfeld is gone, and Baker, and I have no doubt that others will follow. Something is wrong there, possibly the business school. Then, too, the yard is being "cloistered" to death, is being made to resemble a factory rather than a decent campus. To misquote Patrick Henry: "Give us our grass and our eim trees or give us death preferably the vegetable matter...
Constantinople Woman's College was founded in 1890 by Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, who resigned last year (TIME, Aug. 11) after 53 years' service, and was succeeded by Mrs. Kathryn Newell Adams, born in Prague, Bohemia, of missionary parents...
Died. James Patrick ("Big Jim") O'Leary, 60, "Prince of Gamblers"; in Chicago, of heart disease. He was the son of the "Mrs. O'Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed...