Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it matters very much, but Secretary of War Hurley is not a Roman Catholic. If he were, what a blow to Col. Bill Donovan, Mr. Hoover's ex-friend, who had to be shelved because he confessed that faith. It may be that the Catholics claim Pat Hurley, but I know better. As I say, not that it matters except as such things are made to matter by the press, to which your magazine stands as a shining corrective...
...that "some good reactionaries are needed to settle such all-important questions as censorship, and the freedom of the press." When asked after the meeting to define "conservatives and radicals," he admitted that the average conservative is a man just too lazy to act; he is willing to stand pat, and let things slide as they are. A genuine conservative, however, is a man willing to tinker ahead slowly, experimenting as he goes along, trying to get a working principle, but ever advancing. The radical, on the other hand, is one who works as soon as he thinks, or even...
...Kansas City convention last year, Lawyer Hope was much in the company of fellow-Manhattanites who were standing pat for Coolidge, groaning over Hooverism. When Jeremiah Milbank of Manhattan, one of Lawyer Hope's great & good clients, was made Eastern Fiscal Agent of the Hoover campaign, Lawyer Hope and many another Manhattanite felt better. Now, 16 months after Kansas City, Lawyer Hope is well content to have direct supervision of: Internal Revenue collections, national banks (through the Comptroller of the Currency), the making of all money, the Secret Service...
Fifth Game. President Hoover, after watching a pitcher's battle apparently won by Pat Malone (Chicago), was getting up to go when Philadelphia's "Mule" Haas came up to bat in the ninth inning and knocked a straight pitch over the right field fence, bringing in Bishop and tying the score. By slaps and gesticulations, since words could not be heard, Cubs tried to make Malone feel better, but his nerve was gone. He took a long breath, got rid of Mickey Cochrane on a grounder; burly Simmons doubled. Joe McCarthy signalled to pass Foxx. While the crowd...
...Brooklyn one Anthony Bridetyeski was hailed to court by his wife, Lydia, at whom he had flung shoes. The judge asked her to sentence her husband. "He's a dirty brute," said Lydia. "Give him thirty days in the workhouse." After Anthony had been sentenced, came Pat Quigley and wife, Nellie, who had been punched and kicked. Also given jurisprudence, she said: "Give him the same dose as the other fellow...