Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With almost evenly divided opinions, and studied calm, listened quietly as debate began on extending the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for three years. Said Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.): to abandon the policy of tariff-making by the President and State Department would mean a new and vast trade war. Opposed to the bill, Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.) insisted that all trade agreements should have the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Only disturbance occurred when a chair leg collapsed, dumped surprised Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) on the floor...
Alarmed Vandenbergers begged their chief to make a stand against this onslaught- one speech, only one. But the Senator stood pat on his let-it-come-to-me position, wrote to friends: ". . . The Presidential decision this year is too desperately important. . . . The choice of the convention should flow from the deliberative judgment of the American people and not from the transient impulse of a campaign tour...
...years and the English were to change the six-day Easter Rebellion into a hallowed event in Irish history. The revolters who lived through it became heroes, and those who died because of it were added to that list of Irish martyrs -Pat Pearse, Robert Emmet, Terence MacSwiney-which has been growing ever longer since the day in 1603 when proud Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, last of the great Irish princes, was forced to kneel humbly before King James...
...Traitor!" For five years the man who now controls the destiny of Ireland stood pat in his demand for a simon-pure, all-Ireland Republic. Then in 1926 he suddenly proposed to his party of Sinn Feiners that they enter the Irish Free State Legislature on condition that they would not have to swear to the oath of allegiance to George V. His proposal was promptly rejected, and he walked out of the Party to form the Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). Later he took the oath and entered the Dail. Old Republican "incorruptibles" shouted "Traitor!" They still...
...this time John Garfield knows exactly how to play the part of an arrogant young tough. Ann Sheridan is learning to add acting to "oomph"; Pat O'Brien is always good as the benign influence, and his prison-warden in "Castle on the Hudson" is no exception. Sing-Sing has had its bleak face on the screen before--many a film star has gone over the dam there. But what makes this picture unusual is probably the fact that Warden Lewis "Twenty Thousand Years" Lawes wrote the original story. The gangster is neither reformed nor reprieved for the crime...