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Word: pattered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snooks first came into being at a private party in Manhattan. In the course of singing a patter song, Poor Pauline, Miss Brice lapsed into baby talk. Years later Moss Hart wrote a Snooks skit for Sweet and Low, but Snooks was officially recognized when she was included in the Brice routine for the 1934 Follies. The late Dave Freedman and Phil Rapp, who still writes the Maxwell House script, collaborated on material for Snooks. A couple of years later Fanny ran through the Snooks skit as a guest of Maxwell House. Signed up as a permanent attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Brat's Birthday | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...trade patter for out of print). They saw nothing funny about it. "It is," said Ben nett Cerf, publisher of Random House's $3.50 edition of Donne, "a distressing story." Almost as distressed was the Ox ford University Press, which publishes two editions of Donne's poetry, an edition of his prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John Donne, O. P. | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...until after he joined the Navy in 1917 did Benny realize that his forte was ingratiating patter. Then, while appearing in a revue designed to step up recruiting and make money for the Navy, he cut loose with a couple of gags, got such a hand that he resolved to become a monologuist. During his hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jell-O's Dollface | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

Born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Mass. 46 years ago, Allen during his early career was known as Paul Huckle. Progressing onward and upward in vaudeville, he did a turn as Fred St. James and Freddie James before he finally became Fred Allen. As he went along he added patter to his act, acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perennial Comic | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Maxon learned the tricks of direct-mail copy with a small Detroit advertising agency before he started his own. His unaffected down-to-earth approach charmed manufacturers accustomed to the polished patter of big-city admen. When an exasperated Pittsburgh Plate Glass executive asked him what he would do first if he got the account, Maxon replied: "First thing I'd do would be to thank you profusely. Then I'd rush outside, throw my hat in the air and yell. Beyond that I haven't any idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Detroit Fireball | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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