Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweltering on through check stubs, typewritten balance sheets (suspiciously fresh and pat, thought Investigator Reed), the committee determined that the Pennsylvania primary had cost about $2,000,000 altogether. It was ten times as expensive as the celebrated Newberry outlay in Michigan and exceeded the entire cost of the 1924 Democratic campaign...
...Settlement Federation listened to various papers advocating birth control, which one speaker sought to rebut with the pat, laudable, but slightly euphemistic theory that all that was needed was self-control...
...express an opinion do not care to have their party repeat its previous performance. To students who care to view the questionnaire in a detached manner, it exhibits man, the political animal, re-acting unscientifically on the basis of a single instance. Even those who do not react stand pat only on the ground that they have not been sufficiently horrified...
...observations and experience of hammer throwing dates back to the days of John Flannigan and later Matt McGrath and still later Pat Ryan, the present world record holder. These famous Irish athletes were all big, powerful men, weighing well over 225 pounds, and standing over six feet in height, while the present college hammer throwers are rarely of that size...
...been taken in putting through Administration measures-the World Court and the tax bill. There is Walsh; he is the Democrat's hanging prosecutor, only he hasn't found any Republican to gibbet for the public recently. That other man with the wavy, black hair is Pat Harrison, a first-rate denouncer. There was a time when Harrison poured Greek fire on the Republicans, and Walsh poured quick lime...