Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Doorman Pat McKenna swung open the door into the private office of the President of the United States and announced: "The Gentlemen of the Press...
...season at the Peabody Playhouse. Probably their best show value was the production last week of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page." It seemed to me as I sat through the performance that Francis Grover Cleveland gave a much more interesting interpretation of Hildy Johnson than Pat O'Brien did in the motion picture. While some of the other players were not up to the standard set by the cinema, the whole impression was one of sustained action with the starkly worded dialogue landing in the audience's lap with the jolt of a steam ram. Which...
...testimony. Once he got a vigorous assent from Mr. Duffield when he asked: "If the coming special session got to work, composed its differences, balanced the Budget, passed constructive measures and then adjourned quickly, in two months, would not that have a good effect on the country?" And Pat Harrison jokingly advised Mr. Houston to "get off that subject" when the onetime Secretary of the Treasury began to hector Senator Smoot on the evil effects of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. But for the most part Senator Harrison sat back and listened, with what seemed to be complete agreement...
...Pat Harrison. The important part he will play in the leadership of the new Democratic Senate has done much to sober Pat Harrison and tighten his loose-hitched tongue. At 51 he has become almost owlish under the prospective burdens of statesmanship. The great lung capacity he first developed as a barefoot boy hawking the Memphis Appeal & Avalanche about the dusty streets of his native Crystal Springs, Miss, seems to have deserted him. He still makes windy speeches outside Washington about "mah countree" and views Republican doings with "amaze-munt" but he is no longer the Senate's loudest...
...christened Byron Patton Harrison but Pat has become his common-law name. At Louisiana University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased...