Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much in the hands of her husband. Things have been happening, or are said to have been happening, which are laid at his door. For example, the Governess has pardoned or paroled over 1,000 convicts in the ten months she has been in office. (The previous Governor, Pat M. Neff, issued only 17 pardons in his entire term). Her husband is said to have a job as attorney for the Sugarland Railroad that yields him three times as much salary as a governor gets. He is said to have used executive office stationery to solicit advertising for his weekly...
Cried the Westminister Gazette, unintentionally pat, "Don't stare at the Prince of Wales"; continued with an editorial in which Britons were urged to safeguard the Prince from serious risk of a breakdown by "respecting his privacy...
...Madison, Wis., decided to stand pat with Dayton, Tenn...
...Vilem Pospisil may pat himself on the chest. In three days in Washington he funded the debt of his country, Czecho-Slovakia. (Joseph Caillaux spent more than a week in Washington, but failed to reach a permanent debt-funding agreement between France...
Aware that this change had come over their young friend, also that he was married, a parent, and in the banking business with Perry Adair's father's firm in Atlanta, the good greens-gangsters awaited with eagerness his return to Oakmont. His divots would they gladly pat into place, and the divots of many another, that his defense of his title might be impeded by no fault in their husbandry. The fault in their husbandry. The talk that they heard ran sometimes on other young men, besides the perennial headliners, who might give him unexpectedly stern treatment: stocky Fred...