Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entered at Eton for 1949 was Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick of Kent, six-month-old son of the Duke & Duchess of Kent...
...held among his fellow Jews. In 1932 the Roosevelt boom put him in the Governor's mansion at Springfield. But stocky Governor Horner did not find his task easy. Strictly a good-government man, he supported an Honest Elections Bill which was opposed by old Boss Patrick A. Nash's Democratic machine, vetoed another measure which would have empowered Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly to license race-track handbooks...
...still feel about kings in general as Patrick Henry and James Otis and Thomas Paine felt and spoke about George III. . . . However, I am ready to admit that some of the more recent English kings have been rather good fellows, in some respects. Edward VII had the decency to protest against the Oath against Transubstantiation. In reward for his courage in that matter, he died a Catholic. Having made that point-blank statement, perhaps I had better add that I will not enter into any controversy on the matter. But I have direct, authentic reliable inside information on the matter...
Since the days when Don Quixote went out and charged a windmill many a man has gone crusading for his crotchets. In the pages of London's augustly humorous Punch, Alan Patrick Herbert has for years been waging a single-handed combat against four humorless ogres: Prohibition, the Divorce Law, Commercializing the Thames, Bad English. Last week, in What a Word!, he collected his scattered witticisms against the murderers of His Majesty's English, proclaimed a jehad: "I declare a new and ruthless Word War; and I invite all lovers of good words to buckle on their dictionaries...
...Boston to deliver an address on "The United States of America" at a St. Patrick's Day dinner of the Charitable Irish Society, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee was jovial and easy with reporters in his room at the Copley-Plaza last night. Minus coat, tie and collar, his six-foot bulk draped over the side of an armchair, he parried press questions and waxed very optimistic about Democratic chances next fall...