Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Bone and his junior colleague, Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, have been faithful Roosevelt men, rewarded with plenty of PWA and WPA money. Bone has shown some independence: he supported Pat Harrison for Senate Leader against the White House demand for "Dear Alben" Barkley, he voted to override the President's bonus veto, and he voted against the Reorganization Bill this year. With these major exceptions, however, Bone's record is that of a consistent New Deal Senator...
...fact that people who were children in 1903 had barely reached middle age by the time Franco's bombers were pounding Barcelona, Director Wellman, who helped concoct his own story, tried to reflect the whole bright saga of flying through the prism of a conventional triangle plot. When Pat Falconer, Scott Barnes and Peggy Ranson are moppets, sailing kites in imitation of the airship Peggy's inventor father is trying to rig up in his workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell, the narration...
...launched aviation as a major cinema subject with Wings in 1927, thereafter rated as one of the industry's top specialists in aviation epics. More lately his forte has been screwball comedies (Nothing Sacred). To Wellman these apparently dissimilar types seem closely connected. The extraordinary conduct of Pat Falconer in Men With Wings illustrates his belief that Wartime fliers experienced such intense emotional turmoil that none of them afterwards could adjust themselves to normal living...
...When the stage attempts to be realistic," he said, "actors cease to act, they behave. They carry tea-cups and pat the handkerchiefs in their pockets. In this situation playwrights are controlled by the designers of scenery...
...help plug an unknown orchestra, is anything but the result of a brilliant inspiration. Fortunately, the action frequently moves at a fast and funny pace; but equally unfortunately, the humor is invariably of the delayed reaction type, where the butt of a wisecrack absorbs it five minutes later. Pat O'Brien, who makes a startling reversal of type by playing the part of a hard-boiled-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, is the principal recommendation, although one wishes that he would occasionally lower his voice...