Word: prom
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...strongest quality is his refusal to be cowed by the social practices of his neighbors. The movie's funniest scenes center around his demands that the women in the family wear bathing suits that cover their knees and his insistence that the chaperone his eldest daughter at her first prom. Unlike the ordinary father-figure, Gilbreth is an efficiency engineer by profession. His faith in the part that time-study plays in progress leads him to bizarre domestic experiments, such as a photographic study of his twelve children having their tonsils taken out on the dining room table...
...Jeanne Crain as the eldest daughter are in their element. Long the queen of the understanding wives, Miss Loy is superb as the brake on Gilbreth's genius. Miss Crain, of course, has stars in her eyes; she is an ideal selection for the heroine of the high school prom...
...class must decide whether to combine the Senior Prom with the annual Radcliffe Spring Formal or to follow tradition and have a separate Senior Prom. They must also decide what activities they will have on Sunday of their weekend...
...Class of '51 will gather at 1:10 p.m. in the Agassiz Theater. Readoption of the class foster child, a 12 year old Chinese girl, and the junior prom will come up for discussion. Dormitory lunch will be held open late...
...moves along in constant and successful pursuit of happiness, from high school prom to church wedding to a mortgage-free white frame house, she becomes a nearly epic figure: America's Everywoman. Her great and simple message is: life can be happy and Everywoman can be beautiful...