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The French Princess (Renee Asherson) has the backward-bending grace of a medieval statuette of the Virgin. Her reedy, birdlike exchange of French-English with her equally delightful duenna, Alice (Ivy St. Helier), is a vaudeville act exquisitely paced and played beyond anything that Shakespeare can have imagined. Her closing...
Said Excelsior: "The captain pulled a pistol and shot into the floor at the feet of the major, who said, 'That's not the way to shoot, but like this,' and (at elbow-bending range) commenced to empty his pistol against the captain, who, at the same...
"An extraordinary entity this-a thing that has a soul. And as for the soul, what an extraordinary house it finds itself in! Who can say what it costs it, moment by moment, to accommodate itself to this residence, how much writhing and bending, folding and pleating are required of...
Alarmed by the amount of postwar fender-bending, Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, released some grisly statistics:
Till the End of Time. Underneath all the pleasure-bending, elbow-bending and tongue-bending (reflected perhaps-and perhaps not-in increased church attendance) lay a more mature awareness, a profound, bewildered foreboding, a tragic and justified uneasiness, a still more disturbing fatalism. Many Americans assumed that the nation'...