Word: patrick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes of Stalinist true believers is Trotskyism, whose heresiarch is Leon Trotsky, now an exile in Mexico. Trotsky's heretical sect styles itself the Fourth International (5,000 communicants). Until last week its U. S. congregation was the Socialist Workers Party (membership: 2,000), of which hardbitten James Patrick Cannon and full-lipped Max Schachtman were co-pastors...
...Father Halevy (Claude Rains), a bookkeeper, has spent a lifetime working himself into an insecure rut at a mail-order house. Mother Halevy (Elizabeth Risdon), a cinemaddict, has spent a lifetime knitting her husband a sweater, but has never finished it. There is also cheap, dissatisfied Florrie Halevy (Lee Patrick), who henpecks her bill-collector husband (Roscoe Karns...
...fools is bad for the soul. No: give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins. . . . Then you shall see me come out strong." So wrote, not perverse Jonathan Swift to his 18th-Century Stella, but moonstruck, middle-aged George Bernard Shaw to the lovely Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Year after year, in a stream extending from the '90s till long after the war, the most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love letters (as he also did to Actress Ellen Terry). To her the scoffer even babbled baby talk...
Died. Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Tanner), 75, great and temperamental actress (her biggest hits: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Pygmalion) ; in Pau, France...
Married. Major George F. M. Cornwallis-West, 64; and Georgette Hirsch, 58; he for the third time (first wife: the former Jennie Jerome of New York, widow of Lord Randolph Churchill and mother of Winston Churchill; second wife: Mrs. Patrick Campbell-see p. 77); in London...