Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried "Collusion!" at the offer, thought a fair price would be $35. The President split the difference. Agreed price: $36.37½. ¶The President appointed Joseph B. Keenan of Cleveland, special prosecutor in the Urschel kidnapping case, to be Assistant Attorney General, filling the vacancy left by resigning Pat Malloy...
...romantic Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram likes to back lost causes, pat underdogs. Some two months ago he hatched a plan which looked like a sure loser-the forming of a New York newspapermen's guild. He well knew the standard arguments against it. Out of many similar attempts in the past, only those in Milwaukee and Scranton, Pa. had effectively survived. Publishers were hostile. Newsmen, especially in New York, were too proud, too individualistic, too footloose to sign lodge cards. But that was just the kind of set-up that Colyumist Broun likes...
...Pat Obrien labors to produce a mechanically adequate detective; Miss Bette Davis is beautiful, in her clipped manner. But the honors for holding this piece together go to Mr. Lewis Stone, Mr. Stone, it is true, is called upon for some difficult scenes. He must lecture his new detective; he must provide honorable exits for adulterous husbands; he must, in one moment, bluff a confession from some murderer, and, in the next, pat the shaggy head of a boy prodigy. This is the sort of thing which acting will ruin. But Mr. Stone is glad, as always, to remain...
...upon a preservation of the status quo. In the eyes of the World, France naturally is in a more favorable position as one of several nations opposing revision rather than as a single power refusing to be budged from the top of the pile. It is the necessarily stand-pat atmosphere at Geneva which this situation implies that has driven Germany from the League, and has reduced the League to a mere machine for the arbitration of second magnitude problems...
...Grand Rapids episode was only one of "a series of sharp differences" which had culminated in Pat Malloy's breach with his chief. Mr. Malloy said he had recommended prosecution of "a New York financier" for income tax evasion. Mr. Cummings had demurred. When the Attorney General had asked the chief of his criminal division to prosecute a Department of Justice employe for a $2,000 defalcation it was Mr. Malloy's turn to balk. His explanation: "The evidence is not strong and I refuse to use the Government to prosecute a little man while they...