Word: patting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...talk at Harvard, if not real conversation, to justify such a recommendation in this particular case. The book is, in other words, a fireside book like all good collections of essays. One listens to the author, smokes a meditative pipe over an especially fine paragraph, laughs at a surprisingly pat application of a familliar experience, and is ready to say at the end in Dr. Johnson's words, "Sir, we had good talk." Dr. Crofters may have held the floor all evening as Johnson did, but in this instance nobody has been tossed and gored...
Needless to say they are meeting with little success. The public stands pat on its refusal to buy at exhorbitant prices. The retailers can stick it out a little longer but doing business with more clerks than customers is not profitable...