Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they could ask the question of themselves. They were "Senator" Edward Hastings Ford, 56, Harry Hershfield, 58. and Joe Laurie Jr., 50, who have wisecracked their collective way through no years of U.S. vaudeville, formal banquets, benefits, railroad smokers, etc. Their bow to Joe Miller was also a pat on the back for their radio program, Can You Top This? (NBC, Sat., 9:30-10 p.m.; WOR, Wed., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T...
...Newspaper Week (last week) there was one friendly pat for the press. It came from the church...
Life with the Berigans. In Omaha, when the F. A. Berigans' dog, Bozo, got his foot and tail caught in a hay mower, Frank Berigan jumped over a fence to help him, cut himself on one knee, hit himself in the eye with the other; sister Pat ran out of the house, slipped, sprained her wrist; Mrs. Berigan, startled as she was canning, sprained her finger; and Champ, another Berigan dog, jumped over the barn door and broke his foot...
...PINK UMBRELLA -Frances Crane- J. B, Lippincott ($2). Honeymooning in Manhattan, San Francisco Sleuth Pat Abbott encounters an acquaintance of Paris expatriate days and is plunged into the torrid troubles of a quarrelsome clan, culminating in double murders. Abbott's frequent clashes with a babyfaced, steel-willed police lieutenant enliven a tightly plotted, brightly told tale, with an unexpected finish...
Woman's Reason. The social agencies, like transportation agencies, do their best to discourage unnecessary travel. But they are well aware that any Army or Navy wife may insist on writing her own definition of "necessary," and there is no pat answer to the kind of frank explanation given by one eastern girl who had made the long haul out to California: "I don't know why I came out here. It was such a terrible trip. . . . But when I heard Harry was in San Francisco, I just went wild...