Word: patric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granddaughter (Olivia de Havilland), so bored with mercenary suitors that she longs to meet a man who hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when a sleepy justice...
...restored to comedy) he is a lovable fraud, fond of voicing his feelings in the ringing phrases of Shakespeare and the once-aboard-the-lugger playwrights. To star-struck Olivia de Havilland he is unutterably wonderful. When Olivia's infatuation blinds her to the worth of her suitor (Patric Knowles), Idol Howard decently decides to disillusion her. The plan for such a procedure, his dresser (Eric Blore) agrees, is neatly outlined in one of his early triumphs. The Loving Triangle. But Olivia's adoration thrives on the boorish behavior prescribed by The Loving Triangle, grows to gooey consistency...
...following my letter in TIME of May 13 on your and Senator Nye's thesis that munitions-makers cause wars asks me to consider that the French firm of Schneider-Crcusot secretly helped to finance Adolf Hitler and then propagandized at home for increased armament to defend La Patric. Don't you think that you are indulging in that fallacy in argumentation known as ignoration of the clench? You maintain-at least Senator Nye does (perhaps you only imply)-that munitions-makers cause wars: you prove only that they sell munitions...
...great Paraguayan victory: at Fort Gondra a heavy attack had been launched, masses of Bolivian munitions captured, and the Bolivian Campero regiment "virtually annihilated." All this was promptly denied by Bolivian headquarters. Meanwhile the first U. S. correspondent to visit the actual battle front in the Chaco, Anthony Patric of the Chicago Daily Tribune, had his first report published in the U. S. He wrote...
...members, including a clerk from Bog of Allah named Sean Dillon, a Dublin sign painter, a Drogheda school teacher, a traveler named Rex Moore McVitty who came originally from Tandiragee, and two professional actresses, one from Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark...