Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kentucky's massive, paunchy Alben Barkley was so outraged at this report (he, too, had been given a friendly Roosevelt back pat) that he called back all advance copies of his address nominating Franklin Roosevelt for Term IV, and threatened not to make the speech at all. Cried "Dear Alben": "I certainly don't know which shell the pea is under...
...recognized the dog, pulled him out, phoned his owner, Alvin Fay. Said Mr. Fay: "Put the dog on the phone and I'll talk to him." The Sergeant put the dog on the phone, overheard Fay say: "What are you doing up there, Pat? Get right on home." Pat went right on home...
...group has not yet adopted a name, collects no dues (each member pays for his own breakfast). It grew out of a discussion between Dr. Frederick George Niemand and District Attorney Edmund ("Pat") G. Brown. Dr. Niemand formerly belonged to the somewhat larger San Francisco Breakfast Group, but withdrew because "there were too many ministers around and the thing got formal." The Thursday group bars parsons. Reason: they might monopolize the discussion...
...morning after his acceptance speech Tom Dewey set out to present the new face of the Republican Party to the U.S. To the rear marched old Chairman Harrison Spangler, with a pat on the back, to a post as "General Counsel." Into Spangler's job came Nebraska-born, Yale-educated Herbert Brownell, 40, Dewey's closest political friend, manager of Dewey's winning Governorship campaign...
...sung by a lonely girl and her lonely sentry sweetheart) were written in Hamburg in 1923. Its trivial, contagious tune† was made in the Germany of 1938. It was given its drawling lilt in a Berlin cabaret, by a Swedish singer named Lala Andersen (played by comely Pat Hughes), who is now in a concentration camp. (Reason: she wrote in a letter, "All I want is to get out of this horrible country...