Word: patly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Garner, who was amusing himself by trying to find a suitable Easter new hat (see cut), was rumored to disapprove and Senator Pat Harrison was noncommittal. Nonetheless, Congress likes to spend money, particularly in election years and the program was shrewdly divided so that every State and section could be sure of a fat share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where...
...capacity as President of the Senate, is in a mood for quick action, his methods are direct. Last week, as the clerk read each section of the Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later...
...words of a broadcast from the powerful Vatican radio station, in which the words "worthlessness and faithlessness" were applied to "shepherds" actions" which greatly resembled his own. Although the Vatican insisted that this broadcast, made by an anonymous Jesuit, happened entirely by coincidence, its observations on "political Catholicism" were pat and pointed. "False political Catholicism" the Jesuit defined as an attitude, either of the "simple faithful or officials in public life," which consists in "an exaggerated carefulness of tactics and in a weak adaptation to established or foreseen facts. . . . The damage is greatest when constituted guardians of sacred ethics...
...Soviet cinema's favorite topic, but it has never before presumed to characterize its now-deified hero. Actor Shchukin's profile is Lenin's to the eyelash. From biographies, letters, newsreels and associates of Lenin he got Lenin's impatient, nervously-energetic demeanor down pat. In the film he thumbs his vest, shifts uneasily whenever he has to stay seated, drives his points home with emphatic coordination of forefinger, whiskers and narrowed eyes. Not so free with his gestures is the unnamed player who portrays Stalin. Like the actor who played the king as if someone...
Women Are Like That (Warner Bros.) dawdles drearily with the problem of getting Actor Pat O'Brien off a Scotch-&-soda diet and back into the advertising game. Droopy Actress Kay Francis models a few notable Orry-Kelly costumes, drops innumerable...