Word: patters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easily be pushed further by anyone who cares to examine the program announced by the National Students League. Its preamble, in particular, is an excellent example of Communist doctrine, with the logic of Communism carefully deleted and the idea of the "inevitability of revolution" characteristically emphasized. All the standard patter is there, adopted at second hand from the best authorities. For example, we are told that "pacifism (is) thus revealed as a conscious process of capitalist imperialism,"--by the defection of individual pacifists during the war. This statement is one of many which are all presented, of course, as their...
...shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm of hollow hail, interrupted by happy squeals of "Good shot!" and "Beauty!" or disappointed grunts...
Other time-honored elements annoy the Playgoer. He denies that black-and-silver studio apartments and spirituous clinkings in the shaker can lend urbanity to commonplace repartee. He dislikes the glib patter that comes forth like a well-learned lesson from the actors' mouths. He misses that moment of hesitation which, in real life, attends the birth...
...Republican advisers encamped in Washington. Last week President Hoover went to Valley Forge, now a military park, to deliver a Memorial Day address in which he drew a parallel between his own troubles and General Washington's. President Hoover has never been called a Republican stand-patter. But his advice to the country, to emulate Washington at Valley Forge, may supply a slogan for the 1932 campaign: "Stand Steadfast!" In the 17-minute Valley Forge speech the word "steadfast" recurred seven emphatic times...
High powered slogans were coined by the presslords and plastered up, one so lyrically absurd that it soon sifted into London music-hall patter. Slogan...