Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convincing individual in Tommy Gallagher's Crusade (Vanguard, $1), but the tract-like limitations of the story are implicit in the original title: Tommy Gallagher-American Storm Trooper. Mari Sandoz's third book, Capital City (Little, Brown, $2.50), lacks even a credible character. A panoramic, pamphlet-pat story of imminent fascism in a Midwest State capital, it is little more than a leftwing city guide, mainly suggests that Author Sandoz writes much better about such intimate subjects as her father (Old Jules...
...White House comes either Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison or North Carolina's Bob Doughton, fresh from a lunch with Franklin Roosevelt. (Sometimes they come out together, but this is usually considered bad stagecraft...
Only four days before, faithful Pat Harrison had given one of his best performances. Out of the White House he had stepped, dragged lustily on a banana-sized cigar, said: "Government receipts are making such a showing as to gladden our hearts. ... It may be that we can get along without a tax bill...
...Pat O'Malley is a fruity, beet-red, Lancashire-born Irishman who was introduced to the U. S. four years ago with Templeton and Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom...
...bear. An A.M.A.-inspired citizens' committee, investigating management of the hospital, recommended that Dr. Meyer be ousted, hinted that the hospital might be reinstated on the A.M.A.'s list if a new director acceptable to the A.M.A., were chosen. The County Commissioners backed Dr. Meyer, stood pat...