Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the New Deal. Canby noticed that as Grandfather was leaving, Grandson Danny, age nine, "shrank a little from his kiss." "Danny takes things too hard," said Canby. But the most successful (and funniest) scenes in the book are Author Hicks's re-creation of the endless political patter of the radicals. Best is probably a weekend cocktail party at Comrade Wallace Burgin's, where Wife Christina thoughtlessly asks the unpardonable question: "Are you a member of the Communist Party, Selma...
Streamlined and tempered to fit the screen, Purchase has just the right amount of song & dance, patter and production to put over its good-natured kidding of Louisiana skulduggery in Kingfishy days. It also has droll, despondent, befuddled Victor Moore, not quite as broad as on Broadway but just as natural as U.S. Senator Oliver P. Loganberry, the mild-mannered but sea-green incorruptible Yankee who goes to New Orleans to investigate the odd political situation where football players share their salaries with the police...
...other hand is a newly rich, successful business stung by Fly into self-appraisal. It found itself to be several things at once: a marvelous medium communicating news and home entertainment to scores of millions; a boiler room of advertising patter echoing in every cranny of the nation; (and much less continuously) a fountainhead of beautiful music, intelligent discussion, excellent reporting-all given to the people free. There was no complaint from the people. CBS and NBC indeed made plenty of money. But they pointed to the $8,000,000 a year they spent on their sustaining programs and affirmed...
Between air raids last week they could hear the roll of artillery, the rattling patter of rifles and machine guns from across the narrow waters. As they watched the hills they hoped beyond any expression in stiff British communiqués that soon Chinese troops might be coming over the weather-worn humps on the horizon to raise the Japanese siege. Striking from behind the ridge of hills where for three years they had lined the colony's border, Japanese troops, two divisions strong, had burst through British territory to the waterfront of Kowloon (center of picture). The Japanese...
...gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...