Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diet enchiladas, but hope reach Cambridge in time to say to the regular dopesters, Hageman and I'll Buffalo you. Eluded Chinese secret service Manchukuo. Bandits not in Japanese Employment; is no such thing. Disregard protests Pacific Steamship Company I impersonated Gibbons for free return voyage; he isn't patch on me. Sorry Roosevelt farm relief speech caused confusion, I wrote first half. Ejected from his special at Deming, governor a poker player all right. Don't buy H. A. A. book for me until I wire I am getting free board I expect in ST. Louis. Please wire funds...
...make for the rail on the left in their normal racing.* Last week's Futurity was no exception. There was considerable crowding to the left for the first half of the distance. And in the last stretch it was not Ladysman but a 30-1 shot, Kerry Patch, a rank outsider with No. 13 on his saddle cloth, that nosed ahead three-fourths of a length to win the first prize of $88,690. Owned by Lee Rosenberg, a Manhattan cotton broker little known to turfmen, Kerry Patch is not particularly well-bred, had been conspicuously unsuccessful this year...
...Preliminary last week, first shooter in the field to post 25 straight was 17-year-old Bobby Olds of Lansing, Mich., who had a special desire to win. Last spring his family was evicted from their farm. Young Olds hawked vegetables, cultivated an onion patch, spent his spare time loading traps for the North Lansing Gun Club whose members taught him about shooting and gave him his entrance fee and transportation to Vandalia. At 50 and at 75, last week, young Bobby Olds was still firing without a miss, from 21 yd. Running up a perfect score is more...
Life Begins (Warner) is a surprising production for a medium in which even the picture of a stork or of a cabbage patch was once considered too outspoken. It is Grand Hotel in an obstetrical ward?the principal members of its cast are seven expectant mothers, one of them equipped with twins. The old theme of a father waiting for his child to be born is only the springboard episode for Life Begins. Before the main plot develops, the audience has heard the moans of the "labor room," seen a pregnant woman of the world (Glenda Farrell) drink whiskey from...
...Correspondent (Columbia). If the journalist in this picture wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt...