Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack Benny has never forgotten his attempt to be funny on the night, 15 years ago, when George Burns married his partner, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, in Cleveland. Benny's idea of humor was to call up the newlyweds from San Francisco at 3 a.m. He did so and, getting a male voice, inquired, "Hello, George?" The male voice at once barked, "Send up two orders of ham and eggs" and hung...
...Italy on Thanksgiving Day, a group of U.S. soldiers prepared to romp into a turkey dinner. Suddenly one of them stood up. He was a 22-year-old veteran pilot. He said: "Gentlemen, since this is Thanksgiving I would like to say grace." Everybody looked sheepish. Said a chaplain: "Lieutenant, I think that's a fine idea...
Said the chaplain: "Thank you, Lieutenant, a fine grace...
Happy Land is a hard story to picturize without being mawkish. The film does not always succeed. But there is a great deal of simple saving grace about it. The son, who is bad as a baby and unsure as a boy, is as remarkably good as an adolescent (James West) as Don Ameche is as the father. Henry Morgan deserves a small Oscar as the boy's friend...
...natural for Cagney, and he romps and fights to his, and our, heart's content. Bit when matters are turned over to the tender mercies of Grace George, the afere-mentioned lovable old lady, her sweetness soon turns into a sticky goo which moved the spirit to feel like moving toward the nearest exit...