Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story: Ernest Kuster Jr. of Neshanic, N. J., swaddled warmly for motoring, crept off while his father was putting his car in the garage, was found unharmed and happy next morning in the corn & cabbage patch. His posse chirp: "Peekaboo...
...wife, the owner's daughter (Rose Hobart), whom the mate once hoped to marry. The two biggest racial groups in the crew are British and German, next biggest Scandinavians and "greasers." Audiences were ready to expect anything at the first act curtain. They saw the captain and mate patch up their quarrel. The German delegation defies all probabilities by asking the captain to go 500 mi. off his course to land them in neutral territory. The captain naturally refuses. He takes no precautions and is naturally rewarded with mutiny. When the mutineers try to make the captain holystone...
...Senate Committee on Banking & Currency last week began the fifth chapter of its own book of revelations, a chapter which impertinent wags called "Mr. Wiggin and the Chase National Cabbage Patch." The particular efforts of Mr. Pecora were first directed to finding out what ravages the blight of Depression had wreaked in the cabbage patch and how many cabbages had constituted Mr. Wiggin's perquisite as head gardener...
...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...
...oilman into the kidnap car. And Urschel testified that Kelly had spent several days guarding him while he was held at the Shannon farm in Paradise, Tex. Over $73,000 of the ransom, presumably Kelly's share, was found by Federal agents last week buried in a cotton patch on the Texas farm of Mrs. Kelly's uncle...