Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey-haired Grace Coolidge, 68, also contributed a footnote to the history books. In his latter days, she disclosed, "Silent Cal"* sometimes didn't say a word for two months. "There is no greater training for a woman," she pointed out, "than to live with a man who does not speak for two months. . . . But," she insisted, "he had his moments. He really...
...Dodgers on faith, without a written contract. There was no official word on salary, but everybody knew that it was far less than the $60,000 Durocher would have drawn for the job. And there was little doubt that Shotton would step aside once Durocher was back in grace...
Alan Ladd handles both girls and perils with his customary cold, efficient grace; Gail Russell is very easy to look at; and William Bendix, as usual, is a benefit to the show-though he is given nothing much to set his teeth in. Well-mounted, well-played, well-tailored in every way, the picture even suggests that it might be taking place in some such city as Calcutta. Yet it will be impossible for a melodramaddict to feel that he hasn't already been there a hundred times...
...Thus Grace (for no reason discoverable by human standards) may be conferred on a man who hardly cares, and may be denied to another who strives most desperately for it. Guilt may overthrow a man who (by human standards) is unconscious that he has incurred any guilt. Chance, the irrational number by which man confesses the failure of his intellectual algebra, may throw a man off course for a whole lifetime, and even beyond the grave. "When you have once been misled by bells tolling in the night," wrote Kafka, "you can never find the right path again...
...Harvard people might titillate the back country, but otherwise "George Apley" is a capsule version of a theme that requires more careful, lengthier treatment. A last glowing touch in achieved by Peggy Cummins, who plays the debutante Miss Apley aided by an Irish brogue that doesn't often grace Louisburg Square...