Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none of the shifts affected the ministries long under heaviest Tory attack-Fuel, Housing and Food. Attlee had just shifted personnel, was standing pat on policy...
Nevada. Republican George W. Malone does much of his campaign touring by airplane, drops in on wool ranchers. The ranchers like him and they hate the OPA. But Representative Berkeley Lloyd Bunker rides Senator Pat McCarran's Democratic machine and is strong in the cities. Dopesters' odds: 8-to-5 on Berkeley Bunker...
Like many novels that aim at the nerve ends of a whole nation, The Dark Wood is undeniably sincere in intention, but in the telling is pat and unconvincing. Author Weston has strong and respectful feelings for the abandoned soldier and the miserable widow-but her slick answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with...
...season's oddest bit of casting is Pat O'Brien as an art expert employed by a stuffy museum. One night he barges drunkenly into the museum's chaste lobby with a boozy breath and every indication of an intent to wreck the joint. Has he lost his mind? More likely, he is being framed by the mysterious gang of forgers who hope to snatch the museum's loan collection of masterpieces...
Official Montreal really put on the dog for its distinguished visitor. Excitable Mayor Camillien Houde was absolutely épaté as the visitor signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme...