Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George V, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Rosebery, the London Times and the Racing Almanac were ordered to pay ?16,000 damages to Racehorse Trainer Charles Chapman in the latters libel suit in which he claimed he had been falsely accused of doping the racehorse Don Pat at Newmarket Heath two years...
...Eyes & Ears" of his President in the Philippines, Patrick Jay ("Pat") Hurley, youthful and dashing Secretary of War, last week also took on some of the attributes of a presidential Mouth. Journeying to Manhattan, he made two rousing political speeches in defense of his Chief which had in them the clear clang of the coming campaign. What keyed up the Hurley addresses even more was the fact that friends of their energetic and ambitious maker warmly hope that 1932 will bring into the G. O. P. field a Hoover-Hurley ticket and that, as the vice-presidential nominee, Pat Hurley...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, who will be succeeded by Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Railway. This triple play among major railroads spelled the end of Mr. Crowley's leadership of Central, although he still remained a director. Ill health was given as the cause but Wall Street whispered that "Pat" Crowley had lost his fight with Central's bankers over Pennsylvania Railroad's desire for Nickel Plate trackage rights along Lake Erie (TIME, Oct. 12). Son of two Irish immigrants, with no schooling after the grammar grades, President Crowley followed the storybook route to success. His first...
...father owned an immense dirt tank or pond as you call it in the North. There were frogs of many sizes in this pond and I liked to look at them. One day I began to feed a small frog and he was soon so gentle I could pat him on the back. He was not much larger than a walnut. Then I decided to get a size larger frog and after I gentled him I got a size still larger. I kept on at this until I had 20 and each accurately a size larger. The 20th frog...
...Mallard's practice of controlling his Angora by a leash, a common practice in Manhattan, had the Society's approval. His domesticated Angora's chasing the squirrel was a pat example of the Society's strongest argument-that cats are killers. It suggested better than words the late John Burrough's contention that each cat in the U. S. kills on the average 50 birds a year. And it made unnecessary a photograph the society sought to take last week of a house cat stalking a stuffed bird rubbed with stale fish...