Nowadays, it is the lady herself who rises while the day is yet young, slips into a kimono, and patters out into the kitchen to light the gas flame under the breakfast food.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
Such details have become unnecessary, and grumpy stand-patters no longer contemptuously mutter, 'Soap!
"The Perfect Gentleman"
Ralph Bergengren
They may be willin' to take a chance along some lines, but when it comes to weddin's and funerals they're stand-patters.
"Torchy, Private Sec."
Sewell Ford