Word: carvel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delaware: Conservative Republican "Honest John" Williams, 54, beat down the substantial threat of ex-Governor Elbert N. Carvel, 48, to win a third term...
...story is the usual daffy maize. Andy, now a prospering lawyer working for a West Coast aircraft manufacturer, returns to the sleepy Midwestern town of Carvel to negotiate for a plant site. Judge Hardy (the late Lewis Stone) has long since died. But Mom (Fay Holden), Aunt Milly (Sara Haden) and sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) are still settin' in the comfortable chairs of that old white house on Ames Avenue...
Then-the unthinkable. The townsfolk of Carvel turn on Andrew Hardy and circulate a petition to rezone the land to "keep Carvel just as it is." Despondent, sure to lose his job, Andy chokes up a sopping little farewell speech before a packed crowd at the city council meeting, then slopes off round-shouldered to pack his bags. Rooney fans who have to ask what happens next should be charged double admission. When it's over, instead of flashing the usual THE END on the screen, the film's producers own up to the obvious: TO BE CONTINUED...
...Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies (and a Mexican divorce from Schenk), stormily wed (in 1934) and divorced Comic George Jessel, later, a victim of arthritis, lived in Nevada seclusion with Dr. Carvel James, her husband since...
When Winston Churchill's novel was published, an American of the same name had greater fame.* Few now read the other Winston Churchill's Richard Carvel or The Crisis, good books though they are, and their author said of them what the English Churchill might have said of his Savrola: "I wrote for pleasure or adventure...