Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a German incendiary bomb marked J. P. K. burned itself harmlessly out beside his Windsor house, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy said: "Initials don't count...
...London cautious police arrested 24-year-old John Patrick Curtin for ogling the comely Duchess of Kent. Whined Curtin: "I only wanted to see what a beautiful woman really looked like...
...heeled Tory from Williamsburg, Va. Matt Howard takes his bride to the backwoods, where together they raise a family of three, build an inappropriately ornate house, try to reconcile their clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures the black days of Valley Forge. Meanwhile Jane returns to the house of her Tory brother (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). The ending leaves Matt and Jane...
...left Rome for the U. S. Few thought ailing Envoy Taylor would ever return. But the Holy See's diplomacy, canniest in the world, had already taken a step to neutralize the effects of his departure. Day before the Taylor farewell the Pope ap pointed Monsignor Joseph Patrick Hurley, only U. S. member of his Secretariate of State, as Bishop of St. Augustine...
Bishop-elect Hurley's predecessor at St. Augustine, the Most Rev. Patrick Barry, had died only six days before. Such promptness in filling the vacancy was almost unprecedented. Obviously the Vatican was anxious to get Monsignor Hurley to the U. S. in an official capacity as soon as possible. Rumor had it that Monsignor Hurley, who as U. S. contact man for the Holy See saw much of Envoy Taylor, was going to the U. S. to continue his close cooperation with Mr. Taylor. Next day the Pope gave a private audience to the Bishop-elect, reportedly gave...