Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genius. So the phrase"Words and Music by Irving Berlin" has come to mean certain things to the U. S. public, and critics have seldom stopped to ask what relation the words bear to the song, and whether Mr. Berlin's verses are, like his songs, original, arresting, pat...
...Berlin, antic mechanicals of the Saddlers' Trade Union met and reinstalled Friedrich Ebert as a member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
Married. Miss Leila Madeline Asser, only daughter of Governor and Lady Asser of Bermuda; to one John Duncan Miller of Knutsford, Cheshire, England. The Lord Bishop of Bermuda performed the service. Among the bride's four infant attendants was Sandy Ramsay, only son of Lady Patricia Ramsay ("Princess Pat...
Promptly Pat Harrison of Mississippi rose in the Senate to criticize. The President's move was so unexpected that Democrat Harrison was forced to extemporize a trifle uncertainly. First he heavily satirized the appointment as being cheap politics; it was designed, said he, solely to remove Mr. Thompson from Ohio politics where there are several Republican candidates for Governor. Satire having failed to produce heat, the Senator intimated that Mr. Thompson might be inclined to interest himself in the exploitation of the island (rubber, etc.) rather than in the welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly...
Jockey Donoghue has a son, Pat by name, 15 by age. He can ride horses. The horse he rode last week was W. J. Belleroy's King of Clubs, the race the Lincolnshire Handicap. Steve Donoghue, on Argeia, came in unplaced...