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...City's schools for the past seven years. He also heads the American Association of School Administrators. A preacher at heart, Episcopalian Herold Hunt likes to fill in for vacationing ministers (he always draws a big crowd), often preaches to his teachers, too ("Don't be a grouch, avoid the 'little God' complex"). But Kansas City teachers remember him with affection: he got more money for his teachers than any man before him, boosted teachers' maximum pay from...
This treasonable grouch caused poor Farmer Brocke to be knocked, not patted, on the head by the royal executioner. But his view was shared by thousands of Englishmen-affected equally by medieval superstition and horror over Henry's conflict with the Pope. Crowds screamed maniacally when the new Queen appeared in public. The very heavens were said to be outraged by the royal sacrilege; the night sky was rent by speeding, flaming symbols of doom, and tongues of lightning came down to earth to meet the blaze of the fires in which the Catholic martyrs were consumed...
...judge by the film, the sisters were rather like Little Women on an overcast day. Father Brontë (Montagu Love), though a grouch, was not really a bad old sort. Emily (Ida Lupino) found stimulation in a skyline wreck which she called "Wuthering Heights," and frequently flared her nostrils at the moors. Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland), a pretty, man-apt, comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned...
...Graucho Sloucho" Strauss disappointed all when he failed to attend Narragansett's Saturday meet. "The Grouch" figures that he would have won around a century had someone not steered him away from the track...
Molly and Me (20th Century-Fox) is the story of an unemployed English music-hall singer (Gracie Fields), who becomes housekeeper to a wealthy grouch (Monty Woolley), fires his crooked servants, reconciles him with his sensitive son (Roddy McDowall), and comically disposes of his renegade wife (Doris Lloyd), who has returned to make trouble. At picture's end she has him so sweetened up and housebroken that he sits with her in the kitchen late of an evening, singing a pretty, foolish little song which advises you to eat when you're hungry, and sleep when...