Word: patriarchal
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...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
Lionel Barrymore contributes the chief touch of originality by refusing to use a Southern accent. He is a patriarch who disowns his daughter for marrying a Yankee (John Lodge) and who later, won over by Shirley, turns up with a horse pistol just in time to save the Yankee's life and property. The only thing in the show which did not come out of the Ark is Negro Bill Robinson's dancing. He does his celebrated "Climb-the-Stairs" routine and contributes the finest butler's walk that ever reached the screen...
...asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors of States shook his hand as, like an ancient patriarch, Actor Harrison led his theatrical flock about the land. And the first thing he did after alighting from his train in Manhattan last week was to go and see Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. "Will I meet any politicians in Heaven, Lawd?" asked the head of the city with the world's largest...
...banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith, he needs it all when, with his wife, three sons, three orphaned maidens and the animal kingdom...
...Harvard lacks a soul, that University Hall is merely another manifestation of the bureaucratic trend in American institutions, harsh and unfeeling, meting out judgment to wrongdoers. For with Christmas in the air, even the patriarch of Deans has fallen prey to the good will of the holiday season. As his present to upperclassmen, Dean Hanford has spread the glad tidings that no attendance will be taken Saturday in courses other than those regularly open to Freshmen...