Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mail (Universal), for the first time, the cinema regards aviation as a reality rather than as a dazzling myth. It is a first-rate report on happenings in and about Desert Airport, where Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) is the mild competent manager and Duke Talbot (Pat O'Brien) is his swashbuckling star pilot. While Talbot dallies with a pilot's widow (Lillian Bond), Miller has to leave his girl (Gloria Stuart) to fly the mail. Naturally, even an honest aviation picture must contain a crash and rescue; this time they happen when Miller cracks up in a snowstorm...
Circulation Pat...
Taking a tiny silver trowel with a mahagony handle-made from furnishings in the old court chamber-President Hoover dabbed a butter pat of mortar on stone. Chief Justice Hughes heaped the trowel full. Mr. Thompson did likewise. Then a master mason scraped off their dabs, spread a skilful smear of his own while four workmen gently swung into place a three-and-one-half-ton block of Vermont marble inscribed "A. D. 1932." Within the cornerstone Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose late husband as Chief Justice was, more than any other man, personally responsible for the new building...
...England and certain industries that have long been slated for government control. The resolution passed at Leicester is essentially an impatient repetition of the old cry: "Socialism in our day." Today it appears that the intellectual socialist element is dissatisfied with its past role of adviser to the stand-pat trade unions, and intends to renew its appeal by turning to the professions and to the bourgeois classes in general...
...Azania," an independent island about the size of Madagascar but much farther north. Emperor of Azania is Seth, black as shiny coal but bursting with progressive ideas he has swallowed. As soon as he is firmly settled on his rickety throne he proceeds to regurgitate them in rapid succession. Pat to his purpose comes Basil Seal, outrageous example of London's outrageous young wastrels. Seth makes Basil head of the Bureau of Modernization, which before long practically takes over the government of the country. In off hours Basil has fun with Prudence, enthusiastic daughter of the vague British Minister...