Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bergere de Paris," which, by the way, is not the "Folies Bergere" at all, is a clever farce in which the beautiful women, charming dialogue, and sure fire situations resound with a definite click. The movie has already received a favorable review in these columns and we can but pat the University on the back for billing...
When Mr. Stephens did lose his seat to Bilbo, his old friends, John Nance Garner and Pat Harrison, were afraid that The Man Bilbo would block Senate confirmation of an RFC appointment for Mr. Stephens. They undertook a diplomatic mission to Senator Bilbo...
...Eagle's already skimpy tail. In New Orleans Senator Borah's nephew, Judge Wayne Borah, refused to grant an injunction restraining a box company from alleged violation of the lumber code, pointedly added: "Personally, I believe the whole NIRA is unconstitutional." The Senate Finance Committee, whose Chairman Pat Harrison had maneuvered an NRA investigation out of unfriendly hands into his own, was already committed to major changes as it began hearings on NRA's renewal. And to cap its other misfortunes, the Blue Eagle last week suddenly lost its second caretaker...
...Chicago Great Western is a 1,518-mi. "Granger" road sprawling over the rich farm territory directly west of Chicago. Small in comparison with Grangers like Burlington or North Western, it is strategically important as a connection between the Transcontinentals and Chicago. Its president is Patrick H. ("Pat") Joyce, who declared on taking office in 1930 that the "trouble [with the road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than...
Whatever else he may seem to the modern reader, Biographer Hackett's Francis will not seem a lead-wrapped effigy, the stiffly antiquated memorial of a far-off day. Pat and proper to modern ears comes the comment of one of his courtiers, as Francis lay dying: "The old sport is passing out!" ("Le vieux gallant...