Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Britain, which had not won a diplomatic hand from Italy for years, stood pat. German exports as well as imports are under a confiscation ban, she serenely pointed out. No exceptions could be made. Furthermore, Italy did not necessarily need to import German coal when high grade Welsh or U. S. coal could be had in unlimited quantities. Nor would going to war with England provide coal for Italian factories and fireplaces. It would shut off the supply completely. Il Duce was indeed in a tight spot...
Though the key men of the silver bloc, Nevada's Key Pittman and Pat McCarran, talk sentimentally about silver's importance, in Nevada itself the income from Reno's divorcees (temporary residents) is greater than that from silver; the State's meagre manufactures are five times as valuable as its silver production...
...artificially, he could note that the price was lower than ever (34¾?) and that without the U. S. purchase plan† the natural price might be 10 to 15? per oz., which would permit the lowliest proletarian to own complete sets of sterling tableware. Finally he could stand pat on the wise remark of Michigan's Senator Prentiss Brown: "If we are going to follow an unsound policy, then let us confine it to our own citizens...
...home, Fleischmann's swank advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, had an answer: yeast for health. By testimonials, by quotes from scientists, Standard Brands plugged yeast (three cakes a day) for pimples, constipation, that tired feeling. In rolled the money, for there is more profit percentage in a yeast-pat for an adolescent, than in a big yeast cake for a canny bakery...
...Russell takes the part originally played by Pat O'Brien and has the time of her young life, while the audience is right with her. Her cohort, Grant, drones through the picture in his best Ned Sparks manner, and even excels that master of the art. Perhaps these two over do their parts a bit at the beginning when they reminisce about their late married life, and at the end when battling among a nest of telephones and fast-flying epithets. Yet the well-night perfect script holds up any such points where the movie might sag. Ralph Bellamy...