Word: patricias
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William Johnes, timekeeper, and his wife were veterans of the blitz. Ordinarily, they scorned shelters. This time his children, who had been evacuated during the blitz, were in town, and for their sakes he had decided to take cover. Mr. Johnes was carrying Peter, 7, in his arms. Patricia, 11, was just in front of him. June, 13, was behind...
People began to fight for escape. They climbed on those who had gone down, and the pile of the fallen grew waisthigh. Those who kept their feet were gripped by fear and the mob. Patricia screamed: "Daddy, I can't stand it any more, I'm dying." Mr. Johnes tried to shove and make room for her, but he was unable to move an inch. Finally Mr. Johnes grew faint, his arms grew numb. Peter slipped down along Mr. Johnes's body until the dead boy's feet touched the floor...
...PLEASE! Well-behaved little sisters, Eileen, 3; Patricia, 4 months, and their mammie need furnished house, apartment, duplex, or will share home...
...same general theme as his Suspicion (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941)-the slow, terrible growth of fear of a loved one. But Shadow, from beginning to end, is a surpassingly better picture. Its horror is compounded by its setting: an exquisitely commonplace family in a familiar small California town. Mama (Patricia Collinge) is a fluttery hen whose family has become too much for her. The kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes...
...Patricia Strauss (Bevin & Co., TIME, July 7, 1941) might well have taken these words as the starting point for her valuable, fact-filled, respectful biography of Cripps. Long a worker within the British Labor Party and the wife of an ardent Crippsian (G. R. Strauss, Labor M.P. for North Lambeth), Author Strauss tries to show that the very lack of "finesse" and "political acumen" is what has made Cripps the hope of thousands of Englishmen. It is a position, she says, that he would lose only if "they came to suspect, even mistakenly, that he had lost his political naivete...