Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the spell is broken it is barely possible that the crusade will extend to other jokes that have long outlived their humor. When Pat and Mike and the optimist and the pessimists beloved of last years Seniors, pass into that profound rest which their long services have earned for them. It is conceivable that after-dinner speakers will be more popular, that humorous magazines will actually be funny; and even that class smokers may, become enjoyable. At least one fondly hopes that others will fellow the lead of the Oklahoma...
...Divinity Courts, the undefeated second tennis team met the undefeated. Freshmen annul it was the latter team that took the short end of the 5-4 score. The strong wide that blew across the courts made fast tennis out of the question and most the matches deteriorated into pat-ball...
...from the sentimental objection to calling Messieurs Washington, Clemenceau, Cohan, and the pullman porter by a common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...
...hair with a warm turkish towel; pat...
Dean Edgell's spirited defense of the jarring hits of questionable architecture that dot the Yard comes as a grateful balm to most loyal sons of John Harvard. Too often in the pat has it been necessary for Cantabrigians to hand their heads when confronted with photographic reproductions of the splendidly conceived structures that adorn the campuses of other more recent universities to the West and South...