Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some guests were assembling for dinner. I stood it as long as I could, then I went to the telephone and asked a specialist wrhat might be the matter with the baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet to the fire and pat her back. ... In time, the disturbing ailment in her 'tummy' removed itself and I had a most peaceful infant who finally fell asleep and was put back in her crib, and I rejoined my guests one and one-half hours after their arrival...
...oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people to pay off the Bonus (see p. 8). Declared the President...
...well, you always seem to write either about princesses in Tuscan villas, or about gaunt young men with a ten-word vocabularly who spend their lives sweating and hauling wood. Haven't you got any subject between the two?" The Gods Arrive, like all Wharton novels, is a pat answer to this petulant query: its people and problems are U. S. middleclass...
...bales. The figure was only negligibly different from August's forecast-up 4,000 bales. Although the crop had deteriorated during the month, farmers, encouraged by rising prices, had not abandoned the usual amount of acreage. Cotton traders, apparently thinking the Government would again give the market a pat by lowering its figures, were disconcerted by this evidence of the August forecast's accuracy. Frightened, they began selling, sent cotton lurching downward $5 a bale. Some of the loss was soon regained; cotton steadied at around 8? a Ib. Mills continued active. Cotton's gain from...
...WALTER SCOTT?John Buchan ?Coward-McCann ($3.75). Shorter and more readable biography than Lockhart's, pat for the Scott centenary...