Word: patters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after days of rigmarole surrounding a "mysterious woman in black," Cartoonist King completed the cycle back to the patter of baby feet. In his parked automobile Walt Wallet discovered a new baby and a note. Excerpts...
Johannes Steel (a pen name for a German exile who headed the German industrial espionage) tells us in his new book, "The Next World War," just published, that all this Aryan-anti-Jewish patter in Germany is a scheme to make the Germans forget their own class warfare--to weld them into one united family. Elsewhere we are informed that the Nordic-Teutonic stage business is to cover the plan to forge northern and central Europe into a self-contained economic confederation. See the Rosenberg plan in Ernst Henri's book "Hitler Over Europe...
Last year national advertisers paid $145,000,000 to U. S. newspapers, because a news-thirsty public bought 35,175,000 newspapers every day. Last year national advertisers paid $49,500,000 to radio broadcasters because 18,500,000 households listen to Radio's music, patter and melodrama every day. If Radio also broadcast complete news, many a listener would not bother with newspapers...
...Orleans, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, rejecting the opinion of a lower court that "parents who desire the blessings of the patter of little feet must be responsible for the damage done by little hands or, as in the case here, by little teeth," ruled that Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Butterworth were not liable for the action of their 3-year-old daughter Eva Camille who, in a "moment of rage," bit the arm of her Negro nurse...
...inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly addressed in such straight words as these: "At three in the morning you are apt to come upon strange specimens of life, men made frightening by capitalism. They appear to be monsters, and merely to be in their presence...