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English lore has it that Billy Patterson was an ingenuous boatman who earned his shillings in the vicinity of Oxford University. It is said that for years a feud had existed between the students and the river boatmen. A group of excitement craving sophomores managed to capture Patterson and bring him to "trial" before a jury of their peers. He was found "guilty" and "sentenced" to have his head amputated via the guillotine...
...least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost as good fun to watch as it must have been to make. Typical shot: Fields threatening to get McCarthy, with whom he continues his radio feud, a pair of beavers...
Bucklin, the successful suitor, last night attended the Freshman dance with the girl in question. Still handcuffed, Worthen spent the evening laying plans for a prolonged feud. "I'll get him," he muttered, "If I over get these damn things...
Facing him in the chair of the Commerce Committee was North Carolina's tight-mouthed Senator Josiah Bailey, whose long nose, for a long feud, Hopkins once tried to punch in the Mayflower Hotel lobby. Beating last summer's Purge had made Senator Bailey feel no more kindly toward one of its prime instigators. Chairman Bailey turned him over for questioning to Michigan's beetling Vandenberg, spokesman for the Republicans. Mr. Vandenberg, with an elaborate air of ironic courtesy, asked Mr. Hopkins what business experience had qualified him to fulfill such constitutional duties as, for example, running...
Kentucky (Twentieth Century-Fox). Kentucky concerns a feud between two proud Southern families, romance between the great-grandson (Richard Greene) of one and the great-granddaughter (Loretta Young) of the other, and the question of whether Postman or Blue Grass will win the Kentucky Derby. It treats these matters with such profound faith in their importance that it is likely to charm even critics who feel that the cinema industry should be more than a museum...