Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threat of a Democrat filibuster against the Senate's final acceptance of a patchwork measure loomed when Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison exclaimed: "It'll be a long time before you get this Bill. I'd want nothing better than the responsibility for killing this legislation...
...slightly resembles the island on which Shakespeare's less readily perplexed but equally worldly expatriates of The Tempest encountered magic after storm. Owned by a physicist named Stephen Field, it is the scene of a party given by his daughter Ann to six friends. They are: Pat Farley, with whom Ann is in love; Tom Ames and his wife, Hope, who loves their children; Norman Rose; Alice Kendall, who loves Rose; and Lily Malone, an actress whose acid witticisms to her companions are in the best manner of earlier Barry plays (Holiday, Paris Bound). They are devoting themselves...
...only feasible probability. Influenced by airs less gracious than Prospero's-airs which Stephen Field describes, in loose poetry, as blowing from alien estates in time across those in which men live-each character imagines the eccentric scientist as a salient figure from the past. To Pat Farley he is the father of a girl he has loved in England. As a fur merchant he listens to Norman Rose defining a Jewish boy's life ambition. Tom Ames identifies the old man with a Catholic priest, to whom he makes a muddled confession. He is Lily Malone...
...possible for Author Barry to express them in the cliches that dramateurs have been taught to find funny when issuing from the mouths of tired businessmen or sophomores in college. Nor has the cast of Hotel Universe, with the exceptions of Katherine Alexander as Ann Field, Glenn Anders as Pat Farley, Ruth Gordon as Lily Malone and Phyllis Povah as Hope Ames, managed to master its extraordinary moods with the customary skill of Guild performers. The only completely successful detail of Hotel Universe is the setting, by Lee Simonson, of a terrace touched by the light of a July evening...
Coach Mitchell will stand pat on his batting order but it is likely that a change will be forthcoming in the near future if the Crimson batters do not produce more results. Harvard got splendid pitching on the Southern trip but was woefully weak at the plate and this accounted for most of the losses...