Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's pet comic-strip heroines is that ravishing blonde, Burma, of "Terry and the Pirates." Not long ago, if you recall, she developed a violent crush on Pat, the swarthy hero of the strip--who showed a stubborn disinterest in all her advances...
...Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor Allen...
...recently mailed to all Senators, in which the Judge was compared unfavorably to Lord Chancellor Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Those few Senators who stuck it out paid little attention. In cloakrooms they had previously settled the matter. To aid their popular colleague, Mississippi's senior Senator Pat Harrison, who was backing the nomination, to show "The Man" Bilbo that neophyte Senators should not make nuisances of themselves on the floor, they swamped (59-to-4) his motion to recommit the nomination to committee, confirmed Judge Holmes's upping...
...Golfer Rockefeller can indulge in his sport only when feeling particularly spry. (He has not played this year.) Donning earmuffs, he may pat a half dozen balls off the tee of his private course at Ormond Beach, Fla. His only regular exercise consists in puttering around his estate for 30 minutes each day, going for an occasional automobile ride. Yet he still remembers with glee the day he fooled Mrs. Rockefeller, sends Professional Mitchell a wire every year on his birthday. The last one read: "The old friends are best...
...most delightful pose, perhaps, is the naively coy. When she threatens her lever, for example, with marrying the big, fat Italian baker who sells her his wares for a pat on the cheek, he very understandably insists that she come along with him to the Dolomites. But she can shake with active fury, as when she finds a letter that her lover-now husband-thought he had destroyed. The pathetic death of her child is largely the product of a deft, gentle touch in the writing. But it would never to so simply affecting if it were...