Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founded the American Birth Control League. Patrick Cardinal Hayes, then simply Archbishop Hayes of New York, gave it a big boost by having the League's first convention raided...
...Buffalo's brightest boys, by the sworn word of his parents, was young Patrick Lepeiro, 11. One day Patrick was bumped by the automobile of Mrs. Edward J. Laube, wife of a well-to-do restaurateur. After that, according to the Lepeiros, Patrick fell behind in his studies. He was subject to head pains, fits of giggling. He played with younger children. Mr. & Mrs. Lepeiro took their dull son to Psychiatrist Hyman Levin of the Buffalo State Hospital. Dr. Levin gave him an intelligence test, flunked him, and last week went to court to help the Lepeiros collect...
...Levin, on the witness stand, stepped the Laube lawyer. Was it true that Dr. Levin had asked Patrick, among other things, to tell the similarity between a snake, a cow and a sparrow? It was. What had Patrick answered? "None of them talk." What had the doctor given him for that answer? "Zero." And what would be the doctor's answer...
Another question, the lawyer discovered, had been, "When you are going to be tardy for school, what should you do?" Patrick's answer: "Think up an excuse...
...joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished the game in Chabot's place, helped his team...