Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan was to be kept "confidential" until time to spring it on the President as a New Year's surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
Most of the time the tousle-headed man laughed also. But occasionally his eyes looked frightened, his left hand opened and shut nervously. Then the quiet woman would lean toward him, pat his hand. She, Frau Elsa Einstein Einstein, knew that the world must continue making its legend about this small man, her double cousin to whom she has been married for 14 years.∙ She knows that popular imagination makes of him a hero who works in a solitary study mixing mathematical equations to get Truth as old-time alchemists mixed base metals to obtain Gold. She also knows...
...many ways characteristic of his life: tragic, bursting with inarticulated thought. The scene is laid in post-War Germany. A revolutionary group upsets the oldtime government of a little town. There are two leaders: an aristocratic adventurer (Colin Clive of Journey's End) and a communist (laconic Pat O'Brien of The Up & Up). There is also an idealistic exhibitionist (Barbara Robbins) who is loved by them both. Most potent part of the drama comes when the Putsch fails, each revolutionist faces death in a different way. Because of its inexpert dramatization, the play can be safely recommended...
Name of the amalgamated Church is another undecided problem. There are two existing bodies whose unwieldy names might be adopted or simplified-"Alliance of Reformed Churches Throughout the World Holding the Presbyterian System," and "The General Council of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in America." But pat, handy, attractive was a name suggested last week: the American Church, a term not yet appropriated by any worshipping band...
Married. Byron Patton Harrison Jr., son of Senator "Pat" Harrison of Mississippi; and Mary Louise Dorroh of University, Miss.; in Washington...