Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book, the picture has a plot-about a brash detective named Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) who falls in love with a girl (Bette Davis) who comes in to ask about a missing husband. Presently Butch Saunders learns the Chicago Police Department wants the girl for murder; then that the man she is looking for is not really her husband but the person...
...proposer of this plan was Pat Malloy, dark, thick-set Oklahoman. He was born at Salix, Iowa, 48 years ago. When he was 14, a cyclone killed his mother, father, sister, two brothers. As a Notre Dame graduate he went to Tulsa, served two terms as county prosecutor, once had a murder conviction set aside by a judge who ruled that "the prosecutor's closing argument was so eloquent as to have carried the jury beyond justice." For 20 years before his appointment to the Department of Justice in charge of criminal cases, Pat Malloy busied himself profitably...
Come Easy (by Felicia Metcalfe, produced by Elizabeth Miele). The carefree spontaneity of this home-folks comedy, pat for stock company production, had to overcome Manhattan audiences' familiarity with too many identical predecessors. Situation: a slovenly Baltimore family with one respectable relative are happily starving and avoiding the eye of Work. Plot: a daughter gets an Italian count and the uncle gets $25,000 in the stockmarket. Then they lose the $25,000 in the stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fianc...
...orking with Senator Sheppard against Repeal were two onetime Governors, Pat Neff and Dan Moody. Working against them were Governor "Ma" Ferguson arid her husband Jim. The Roosevelt machine functioned with quiet efficiency on orders from Washington and Postmaster General Farley; theme: "The good old doctrine of States' Rights, so dear to the hearts of all Texans." Vice President Garner quit fishing long enough to announce that he was voting...
...passed middle age, do not. The transformation of generous talents into sere opinionatedness is a recurrent phenomenon each generation recognizes, but only in its predecessors. Authoress Gale, no ten-talent writer, still possesses the tenderness of her youth, but it has grown a little mushy, auntly sentimental. Practice makes pat and Authoress Gale knows better than ever how to put her gentle, everyday stories together. Some of them...