Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty low for a safe jump, even with parachutes which open very quickly. Most of the squad had made ten or twelve...
...hypnotized against his will. If he is not cooperative or at least open-minded, the hypnotist's suggestions break like seas on a cliff. The oftener he is hypnotized, the easier the trances return. Soon he can entrance himself, perhaps by reciting a simple patter: I feel very comfortable. My arms are so relaxed. My feet feel very relaxed and heavy. I feel so very comfortable and relaxed. My whole body feels comfortable and relaxed. I just want to sleep. I feel so comfortable. My eyes are getting heavy, so very heavy...
...full pages on Langdon P. Marvin, Jr. '41 will feature this week's issue of Life, which is scheduled to go on sale this morning. An entire section is devoted to a "Life Goes to Harvard" series of pictures and patter, the fruit of the visit of a Life photographer to Cambridge some two months...
...with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept up a patter of light talk...
...Patter Songs from Gilbert & Sullivan (Nelson Eddy, baritone, with chorus and orchestra conducted by Robert Armbruster; Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). Baritone Eddy's fans-but not Savoyards-will forgive his rather apologetic, Yankeefied impersonations of the Mikado, Jack Point, the Lord Chancellor, John Wellington Wells, Major General Stanley, First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. The last one sounds like an odd, unconscious parody of President Roosevelt speechmaking...