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Fresh from the lead in "Keys of the Kingdom," Gregory Peck appears as the logical, and similar, successor to Walter Pidgeon as Greer Garson's (Mary Rafferty) partner in marriage. Lionel Barry more is his usual explosive self as vindictive Pat Rafferty, while Donald crisp performs competently as a sympathetically presented steel magnate...
With the Indian leaders who were not in jail the Viceroy engaged in earnest discussions. But most of the time he listened. With the jailed political prisoners he carried on a correspondence marked by understanding and humanity. Indians accustomed to word-jugglery and nebulous formulas noted with surprise his crisp, matter-of-fact candor. He impressed them as a disciplined, cultured administrator sympathetic to Indian aspirations, less concerned with his office than with Indian good will. To Gandhi (then in jail) he wrote: "I am in entire accord with that aim [Indian self-government] and only seek the best means...
...10th Mountain Division headquarters in Caporetto, all was Yank efficiency: maps, intelligence reports, crisp uniforms, shiny equipment, freshly shaved chins, in weird contrast to what we had seen on the road coming...
...loft for weeks, Mary Squires, Mother Wells and all the household were carted off to jail. "The Bawd of Enfield" was branded on the thumb and let go, but Mary Squires was tried for her ten-shilling theft (of the stays) at the Old Bailey before Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Lord Mayor of London...
...girl's an impostress," retorted Sir Crisp, the Lord Mayor, promptly ordering the pardon of Mary Squires. Others called her a fraud comparable to the Rabbit Woman, who had set all London by its gullible ears with her claim "to have borne an incredible number of rabbits at a birth...