Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long-Handle Drawers. Grandfather Pat Kennedy, a saloonkeeper, was the Democratic leader of Ward One in East Boston, a state representative and state senator, an associate of such lights as "Diamond Jim" Timilty, the Roxbury boss, and Smiling Jim Donovan of the South End. Grandfather Fitzgerald was a U.S. Congressman and twice mayor of Boston. Honey Fitz's theme song was Sweet Adeline, his political creed was based on the sound premise that the strength of textile-making New England depended on everybody's wearing long woolen underwear, and he thought of himself as "the last honest mayor...
Honey Fitz and Pat Kennedy often opposed each other politically, but they formed a family coalition with the marriage of red-haired young Joe Kennedy and brunette Rose Fitzgerald, who spoke French and German and "understood Harvard." Harvardman Joe, who had just taken over as president of East Boston's Columbia Trust Co. (Pat Kennedy held substantial stock in the bank, which did not hurt Joe's getting the job), promptly announced that he would make a million dollars with the arrival of each new child...
Inept at the Switch. Jack Kennedy, politician, was-and is-a long way from the likes of Pat Kennedy and Honey Fitz, a fact still resented by some of Boston's old Irish types. Says one: "Tell me, who'd he ever get a job for? When did he ever attend a wake? When did he ever get out and rustle food for a poor starving family? Or raise the money for an undertaker?" In fact, Kennedy is even inept at the "Irish Switch," a maneuver that consists of vigorously shaking one person's hand while talking...
...pat shuffling of characters on and off stage reveals his unsure stage craftsmanship, as do some of his strongest assets: some of his pungent, well-wrought lines, which sounded excellent from a nearly excessively bright novelist, can sound overpolished in the mouths of characters on stage, especially such a character as a housemaid...
...their famed run-pass option play. The lean, long-muscled Oklahomans who had never played on a losing team were hard put to hold the game to a scoreless tie. And in the fourth quarter, they could no longer do that. Notre Dame Fullback Nick Pietrosante shared with Halfback Pat Doyle the joy of bulling for steady yardage through the outcharged Oklahoma line. They brought the ball all the way down to the three-yard line. Then, when the Sooners jammed the middle to stop them, Irish Quarterback Bob Williams pitched out to Halfback Dick Lynch for the game-winning...