Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outrageous prices. With his indictment quashed, Engineer Kelly was technically outside this Chicago scandal. But its shadow was enough to bar him from serious consideration as a candidate for high elective office. In 1931 "Tony" Cermak was overwhelmingly nominated for Mayor. At Cermak's death old Boss Pat Nash who succeeded him as Democratic National Committeeman wanted to be Mayor. Young, aggressive State's Attorney Thomas Courtney backed Corporation Counsel William H. Sexton, chief Cermak adviser, for the job. They compromised on Ed Kelly. As soon as the new Mayor was installed in City Hall, the old Sanitary...
...play in case the doubles turned out to be the deciding match. It turned out not to be. With the score 5-7, 6-2, 3-5 against her in her match with Peggy Scriven, Helen Jacobs let the English girl get as far as 30-all. Then, playing pat-ball tennis to match her opponent's, she won four games in a row for set, match and series - 4 matches to 3 after Alice Marble and Marjone Gladman Van Ryn lost the doubles...
...ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie locks him up in the cabin while she goes to a reception for her son, meets his fiancee Pat (Maureen O'Sullivan), daughter of his boss...
...into famed Castle Garden, rowing out to the late Phineas Taylor Barnum's famed Chinese junk Keying which Barnum had built in Hoboken, claimed he had had towed clear from China. On the right a full load of 100 Irish immigrants and baggage, including the box of one "Pat Murfy. For Ameriky," debarked from a three-masted British ship. In this, as in all his work, able Painter Samuel B. Waugh had mixed a slapdash effect with some realism...
When the Hawk was finally landed by Major James H. ("Jimmy") Doolittle, Chinese swarmed around to pat it and the ship was christened Greater Shanghai by Mayor Wu's beaming wife. Soon 36 Hawks, costing $1,000,000, were ordered by the Chinese Government. The first ships left the U. S. this week...