Word: patting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Marriage Announced. Fiske O'Hara, famed actor, to Miss Pat Clary, actress, 17 years ago (see THE THEATRE). Because of a clause in the contract with his manager, Mr. O'Hara has been unable to make his marriage public. Recently, he became his own manager...
Dawes' Senate-Reform. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison led off with a story: "It is said that once a fly lit upon the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. Crawling across one of the seamlike connections, he flew away to tell the other flies that he had discovered a terrible defect in this, the greatest work of Sir Christopher Wren. I commend this story to General Dawes...
...Pat Jennings, a web-footed Canadian sportsman, decided that he would swim from Toronto to Manhattan by way of Lake Ontario, Erie Canal, Hudson River (400 miles) to celebrate the 110th anniversary of peace between the U. S. and Canada.* He expects to make several stopovers en route...
...Irish spirit which pervades the magazine? Certainly there is no boldness there, and even the Irish jokes have been diluted with un-Irish college humor, Lampoon variety, which seems quite out of place against the dull emerald background. The whole presents the appearance of a catalogue of sure-fire "Pat and Mikes" for the ten-twenty-thirty vaudeville performance...
...Frank H. Hitchcock, who last summer managed Senator Hiram Johnson's abortive attempt to take the Republican nomination. Silk hats were everywhere in the stand, even Dick Jervis, the tall, the handsome head of the White House Secret Service men, was wearing one. There were a few exceptions. Senator Pat Harrison, for example, wore a broad brimmed black felt...