Word: pattering
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...Harding's since 1926. Baptist ritual was read. Then guardsmen of the Tenth Infantry took their posts and the Marionites went home, again full of love and admiration for the jovial, handsome man whom today's young men and women of Marion can remember as a fond patter of heads and chucker of chins when he was Marion's leading citizen, then Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, then a U. S. Senator and finally that incomprehensibly great man, the President of the United States...
...thanksgiving. It is a book about the "great open spaces" by an enlightened man. A strong, silent rancher marries a virtuous Manhattan chorus girl, loses her for a while, fights predatory waterpower interests, tries city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead of lollipops we get literature. For pap is substituted philosophy of a distinctly austere variety...
...family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...
...musical number is the sentimental "It Must Be Love," sung first over a subway turnstile (not in the rush hour), after the nice young man has paid the nice young lady's fare with his last nickel. Others are Mr. Puck's "I Was Blue," and the vaudeville troupers' patter number, "We Were a Wow in Worcester...
...buggy ride'! Gimme a vitamin now, dearie. Need all the vitamins you got. Need a vitamin to take on a buggy ride. 'Thanks for the buggy ride.' THANKS for the buggy vitamins! Oh, Oh, OH! 'I had a wonderful time! Wonderful treat! Juh-huh-hust to hear the patter of hor-sez feet! THANKS for the buggy ride...