Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the usual number of confirmations and denials, Warners chose poker-faced Pat O'Brien to play Rockne. The selection was like a distinguished service cross to O'Brien, who, like most Irish-American males, is a violent Notre Dame fan in spite of the fact he teased their marching song at parties with a parody beginning: "Shame, shame on old Notre Dame. The Jews and the Polaks have stolen your game." Some plastic work to spread his nose and blondined hair and eyebrows change the O'Brien face into a reasonable facsimile of Norse Knute Rockne...
...Democrats!" While never entirely absolving the Democrats when anything goes wrong, Josephson is more inclined to snap: Republicans! First Republican President maker in this book, which covers the period from 1896 to 1919, is Marcus Alonzo Hanna, the Ohio boss credited with electing McKinley and coming the expression: Stand pat! Second Republican President maker is Roosevelt I, who in so far as McKinley's assassin did not make him President, made himself President. He also made Taft, who occupies quite a section of the book...
Originating the Notre Dame shift at the burlesque show and the forward pass at a bathing beach, pat O'Brien, with nose pushed left, gives an entertaining but not convincing performance as "Knute Rockne--All-American." Only Ronald Reagen sparks the picture as George Gipp, Rock's greatest player. His sincere death bed histrionics make the flabby sentimentality of the last quarter of the picture worse by comparison...
...Having shuffled virtually the same old pack to deal out this Cabinet, Churchill then dealt his own Conservative Party a pat hand in the new inner War Cabinet. By adding Bevin he had three Laborites and three Conservatives in the innermost council of the British Empire. But the Conservative Party controls the bulk of Britain's wealth and a two-thirds Parliamentary majority (frozen while the war lasts). So the Conservative Prime Minister upped his War Cabinet to eight, added Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood and Sir John Anderson. This brought the standing of Britain...
Having beaten Brown, the Senators abandoned further attempts to keep the bill clean. As the final vote approached, Pat Harrison accepted amendments right & left. Key Pittman of Nevada got blanket exemption for all his friends who are en gaged in mining various "strategic" war materials. Texas' Tom Connally swelled the bill by more than 100 pages with a steeply graduated income tax, to be imposed in case the U. S. declares war. Senator George introduced a subtle liberalization which would reduce the yield still further, and which nobody quite under stood...