Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News. After 15 minutes of nonsense on the antics of news reel camera-grinders, including some scrambling on the head of a fake Statue of Liberty, Hot News becomes hilarious and develops a plot. There is a Maharajah, who has never been photographed. Miss Pat Clancy (Bebe Daniels*) and her cocky rival, Scoop Morgan, set out to film the Maharajah. Disguised as entertainers, they are admitted to a country estate where he is sojourning. They put on a dance which is really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck...
...your issue of July 2 on p. 25, you have unintentionally confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should...
...weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit." But Hearst no longer cracks the whip that terrorized his rivals and upset the standards of journalism at the turn of the century. He is now willing to compromise, or to stand pat...
...HorseMeat Clear Soup) Pat de Foie Gras...
What Brigadier General Lincoln Clark Andrews said three years ago when he became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement would have been pat for his new job of last week. Twelve U. S. rubber companies had formed a Rubber Institute and made General Andrews, 60, Director General...