Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They pat their own backs, write stories in reams...
...Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling, leader of the "Mothers' Crusade" which once sprawled noisily in the halls of the Senate office building, wore a big, rose-trimmed hat and a becoming...
...Nebraska expects the Democratic gubernatorial candidate to beat vote getting Republican Governor Dwight Griswold next November. But no one expected that Pat Heaton, an able small-town lawyer and choice of the Democratic bosses, would lose the Democratic nomination. Yet last week when the primary votes were counted, Pat Heaton was 344 votes behind George W. Olsen, a baggy-clothed 62-year-old cafeteria bus boy at Omaha's Martin bomber plant, and an absolute political unknown. Sole reason for George Olsen's triumph: his Scandinavian name...
...Goodbye (by George Seaton; produced by John Golden) tries to perk up a tale of mousy living people by introducing some lively dead ones. The spirits are a just-dead, good-natured New England paterfamilias (Harry Carey) and his long-dead, thick-brogued, high cockalorum of a father (J. Pat O'Malley). They scuttle, garrulous and unobserved, about the parlor watching the effect of death on the household, bemoaning their earthly shortcomings, trying by spectral ruses to straighten out the mess in which the dead man left his affairs...
...Dealer. An early and savage isolationist, he switched in 1941 to follow the Roosevelt policy down the line. Since the departure of Arizona's Henry Ashurst in 1941, he was the Senate's best exponent of lush oratory, combined with a delicate irony that was so unanswerably pat that it choked his opposition into helpless gurgles of rage. Fortnight ago, in bitter argument with Missouri's Bennett Clark, he cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate him to higher planes of thought." When Clark...