Word: pattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glib female novelist, with all the patter on "dear old Dr. Freud" and "the sub" (meaning subconscious mind), gets Gita in hand, lures her into feminine flimsies. In time Gita can bear to take walks, even shake hands, with a male novelist, Eustace Bylant. Eustace is admirably veneered, intellectual, a good talker, no carnalite. Seeing that if she lives with him she can escape other male companionship, Gita proposes?not exactly marriage, of course: a ceremony for talk's sake, but after that just a joint roof and dining table...
Tonight is the Junior Promenade. The class of 1926 and its chosen partners will swing to the rhythmic measures that once more liven Memorial. Once more will the dusty crannies and long-shadowed nooks reecho to light laughter and the patter of satin slippers on a polished floor. To each son of Harvard, the Prom--the prom of his own class--comes but once in a lifetime. But Mem has seen many--Mem has witnessed many a class at its revelry. Perhaps this is the basis of a warmer hold on old graduates than the memory of the numerous meals...
...tradition at once evokes briefly the feeling of dreams fascinating because too tenuous for sharp perception. And after the last, I find lost among the pages of proof given me for review, "Farewell Chorus" by Howard Doughty quite sure in technical command except for a jarring rhyme of "patter" and "Satyr" for which he should be drawn and quartered if not burnt at the stake. Within the form, however, lives much natural beauty that realizes the Pagan life for which young poets cannot help being wistful
...position of Secretary Hughes, who opposes recognition of Soviet Russia. But perhaps Senator Borah's ardor can bring some new pressure to bear upon the State Department. On the World Court issue, Senator Borah's stand is less sure. At any rate he is not the irreconcilable and stand-patter that was Senator Lodge. By strenuous effort, making due allowance for Senatorial procedure, it is quite possible the United States may endorse the World Court by, say 1950, though that may, be premature...
...been the custom heretofore, and its sponsors expect the show to be correspondingly better. Of the five or six manuscripts submitted, the plot will be taken from the book of Howard Finney '26. This will form the backbone of the play. A large part of the "patter" as playwrights have it, will be taken from the book of J. S. Murphy '25. Also the high lights of several other manuscripts will be incorporated, as far as is possible without destroying by abridgement; and addition the dramatic unities of the play. The play will be gone over thoroughly this evening...