Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without mentioning her name. Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times, who has been sniping from haughty ambush at His Majesty (TIME, Nov. 23), emerged partially from cover with a most ingenious leader written around the appointment of the new Governor General of the Union of South Africa, blameless Patrick Duncan. As though admonishing Mr. Duncan, but obviously admonishing King Edward, the Times referred to the office of Governor General thus: "It is a position-the position of the King's deputy no less than that of the King himself -that must be kept high above public reproach...
County Chairman Patrick A. Nash and Mayor Edward J. Kelly unreservedly called for and worked for the election of the entire Democratic ticket. The straight ticket was emphasized in every phase of the campaign. When inspired rumors of the type familiar in all election campaigns were spread, by the opposition, to the effect that Governor Horner would be slighted, Chairman Nash and Mayor Kelly took the unprecedented action of personally sending to each of the more than 3,500 county precinct workers a telegram reinforcing the party position of wholehearted support for every candidate on the ticket...
...night down on the waterfront a certain Mrs. Morrissey was cutting herself a slice of bread in her tenement room when her drunken son Patrick blundered in, demanding money. He knocked her down when she refused. Undaunted she got to her feet screaming, "you had better kill your mother and be done with it." Son Patrick took the bread knife and obliged her. He was the first man to be condemned to death in Buffalo in six years. It was the duty of the sheriff to hang him. The young sheriff went home to his mother Ann, widow...
...back to Buffalo, had a gallows built in the jail yard, a canvas stretched overhead to prevent the curious from seeing from neighboring housetops. After taking unusual precautions to have the execution go off swiftly and without a hitch, he took a stand where he could not see Matricide Patrick, and sprung the trap...
...none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture, and gives rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness comes to when it matures, and therefore makes us feel sorry for Godfrey. And nosegays to Gall Patrick, the sour note in the family, and Eugene Pallette, the father of the raving crew...