Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montee had begged a plane of Major General Mason M. Patrick, Army air chief. He had obtained his request and been assigned Lieut. Donald Fritch to fly with him as pilot. Lieutenant Fritch, of course, did much of the actual operating of their craft, but admiration echoed for the battered elderly gentleman who stepped out on Mitchell Field and asked the way to a hospital...
...that, no longer supple of bone, was taking: long chances, flying with fractures. His hosts led him to a Long Island hospital. There Mr. Montee thanked them, and asked for pen, ink, paper. He would let doctors examine his breakage, yes, but first he must write to Air Chief Patrick for another plane, to carry him on visits to Eastern airdromes, then across the continent, back home...
...pointed to the hiring of underworld thugs, by "higher-ups" in Canton to commit the murder. One Louis Mazer, Canton bootlegger and an overlord of the Canton "jungle" was arrested. Also one Ben Rudner, hardware dealer of nearby Massillon, Ohio. But the key man of the mystery was missing, Patrick Eugene McDermott, ex-convict, member of a family of mine-laborers in Nanty Glo, Pa. He was believed to have been in the shooting gang. He was known to be hiding somewhere, supported and protected by his criminal employers...
Married. Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of Frank W. Woolworth, popular-price merchant; to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr.; in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan. The groom recently changed his faith to that of the bride...
...numerous scenes pitch through so many scattered periods of Clyde Griffiths' life that one is given the impression of snatchy revelations, skipped pages. Yet Patrick Kearney preserves with such care the causal sequence of the story that Mr. Dreiser's tragic skeleton, at least, is reproduced in true proportions. Morgan Farley throws himself wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams...