Word: pattingest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...galleries wahooed. The stand-pattingest of the standpatters smiled indulgently. At one burst of applause, the young man bowed deeply and said: "It is so unusual for a Republican from Wisconsin to receive applause at a National Republican Convention that I thank you most sincerely." Then, lest politeness detract from potency, he asked that the remark be stricken from the record. But everyone remembered the politeness and before the young man left the platform he had cause to take more bows, hand over heart, actor-fashion. Everyone enjoyed it and the thunderous "No" that soon buried the Minority Platform...
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