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Word: patch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous possibilities. A book might be banned simply because a moss-backed industrialist long out of school chanced to disagree with the author. In the current controversy, trusting the National Association of Manufacturers to maintain an unbiased point of view would be like trusting a rabbit in a cabbage patch.--Yale News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 1/14/1941 | See Source »

Last week's public hearings got off to a rowdy start. As Chairman Coudert announced rules of procedure, up popped a square-jawed young man with a black patch over one eye. He was William G. Mulligan, counsel for the Teachers Union, chief target of Mr. Windels' investigation. Mr. Mulligan demanded the right to cross-examine witnesses, was finally ejected by two policemen. Then Mr. Windels introduced his star witness, a genial Brooklyn College English professor named Bernard David Nino Grebanier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reds in Brooklyn | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Irvin Abell of Louisville. The division of labor, he said, is clear. Any ulcers which do not heal with rest and special diets must be dealt with by surgeons. As for surgery, he went on, most experts believe it does little good merely to snip out the ulcer and patch up the stomach or intestine. For the incorrigible stomach keeps on brewing its corrosive acid. Most authorities hold that the best procedure is to cut out "three-fourths to four-fifths of the stomach." Since the stomach is primarily a churn and a reservoir for big meals, it is possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking of Ulcers | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

They Knew What They Wanted (RKO Radio). When Tony Patucci (Charles Laughton), a porky, affable Italian winegrower in California's Napa Valley, tries to patch up a quarrel between his ranch foreman (William Gargan) and his mail-order bride (Carole Lombard), he argues that "Peoples no should fight," then speaks a little preachment on friendliness. During the filming of this scene one hot day last July, sprightly, spindly, 27-year-old Director Garson Kanin objected to Laughton's delivery as too much Laughton, not enough Tony. A director-actor fight followed which had Hollywood gossips' pens wagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Latest Labors | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...pneumonia, after five days' illness; in Manhattan. Cincinnati-born, she co-starred at 15 with De Wolf Hopper. She appeared in Victor Herbert's famed Babes in Toyland and in 1915 went to Hollywood to make such films as Snow White and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Peer of Mary Pickford, fairy-like (4 ft. 10 in.) Marguerite Clark retired in 1920, wed Harry Palmerston Williams, late (1936), wealthy, Louisiana cypress heir and maker of fast Wedell-Williams airplanes. Said she of her career: "I knew enough to go home when the party was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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