Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm of death which Adolf Hitler promised Great Britain so increased in violence last week that its full blast was expected hourly. From a tentative nocturnal patter, the rain of German air bombs swelled to widespread showers by day, then to fierce successive cloudbursts at all hours, delivered not only by lofty level-flight bombers but by scores of Stukas which dived shrieking to demoralize men on the ground, machine-gunning people and cattle indiscriminately. Iron censorship and brave British disdain concealed the true extent of damages and loss of life, but both rose inevitably as the official daily tallies...
This summer The Aldrich Family will once again replace Benny, offering instead of his unctuous patter the best juvenile program that has ever appeared on the air. Written by amiable Playwright Clifford Goldsmith, featuring 21 -year-old, crack-voiced prodigy Ezra Stone, The Aldrich Family will continue to relate the trials & tribulations of adolescent Henry Aldrich, who first turned up in Manhattan in 1937 in the George Abbott comedy What a Life. Besides The Aldrich Family, radio's summer substitute fare (on Eastern Daylight Saving Time) will include: >Abbott & Costello, oldtime vaudevillians, who will split with Mr. District Attorney...
...most of Wall Street and the New Deal preferred to keep the market open. Brokers naturally wanted to continue pocketing commissions on two-and-three-million-share days. Administration skeptics discounted the small investors' pleas because a suspicious number had been telephone calls from women using the same patter, apparently instructed by panic-provokers. In addition they argued...
Good-humored, large and shrewd, Ameringer's story does not idealize the proletariat, rings in no abstruse Marxian patter, no unbuttoned revolutionary blab. He makes a roaring farce out of the campaign of the poor to elect picturesque Jack Walton to the Governorship of Oklahoma; after election, the man of the people took to plus fours and golf with oil magnates...