Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...
There had been nothing like it since St. Patrick exorcised the snakes. As Erin's drink bill fell, so did the country's crimes. When the priest started a new church, Roe, the great Dublin distiller, sent him a big check: "No man has ever done me such harm, but it is a small thing beside the good you have done my country...
...State to do the job, and entrusting him with it, the President has stuck loyally to Hull as the chief, but has consistently by passed and circumvented him for ten years, using other men in and around the Department for special diplomatic chores. Examples: Raymond Moley, Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, William C. Bullitt, to mention only...
Died. Sir Patrick Duncan, 72, Governor General of the Union of South Africa since 1937; of cancer; in Pretoria. A grey-thatched, firm-lipped Scot, Duncan studied at Oxford's Balliol College, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, entered colonial service in 1894. He rose to be Minister of the Interior, Public Health and Education (1921-24), was the first South African citizen to become Governor General...
...Bullitt would do among Philadelphia political muggs, how he would grapple with the sewer problem, the noisome water-such topics were much mooted by Philadelphians last week. For Bullitt is a patrician and a reformer. His family tree is ornamented by the father of George Washington, the sister of Patrick Henry, Pocahontas herself. His greatgrandfather and grandfather are civic statues...