Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pat on the Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...
...held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give it up when I became king," he said...
...priest, Pat O'Brien is skillful, experienced, and excusably languid. The picture's attractiveness, such as it is, comes from good sets nicely photographed, and from its deeply old-fashioned story and general treatment. But that, in turn, becomes pretty hard to bear; you fully expect a ragamuffin, religiously moved, to whisper Hully Chee...
Louisiana's gravel-voiced Governor Earl Long decided to give adjourning members of the State Legislature a pat on the back. Both the House and the Senate had all but walked on their hands to do his will, had raised taxes by $80 million dollars, upped old-age pensions, wreaked revenge on his enemies in New Orleans, and given him vast political power. Earl made his thanks as handsome as possible. Said he: "I don't think I've ever seen a legislature with less drunkenness and less rowdyism...
After Angels, Hughes made five more pictures, including his two best: Scarface, with Paul Muni, and The Front Page, with Adolphe Menjou and a newcomer named Pat O'Brien. Then he turned to aviation. So far as Hollywood was concerned, he had come, seen, conquered. On one of his very rare visits back to Houston, he said to friends: "Movies are a cinch. The more you spend, the more you make...