Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slow Burn. In Woodstock, Vt., a fire broke out in the basement of the Wendall Walker house on Sunday; the staircase caught fire on Monday; an upstairs partition blazed on Tuesday; the jittery Walkers moved out on Wednesday; the house burned down on Thursday...
...Track Slow. All was not sunny at Sunshine Park. On opening day a handful of customers showed up. It soon became a financial rarity: a track that was losing money. And Florida's cloudy weather this cold winter did not help. Yet except for a few gyps who "hopped" their horses, the racing was about as honest as it is anywhere-and like the big tracks, under state supervision...
Sales of perfume and costume jewelry were dolefully slow. But sales of gay scarves were phenomenal. They were 1947's chief fad everywhere. Another fad: "shorty" coats (known in some stores as "swallow tails"). In Chicago, Marshall Field's offered a shorty specialty which was going like hot cakes among teenagers: a "hot-jive jacket" of yellow plastic with such sharp legends as "Natch" and "Slick Chick" printed on it. The "slicker" days of the twenties were back...
Emerson, in his day, had been a radical. Mr. Apley is never "late" in the biographical sense; the movie ads explain that he is slow to learn that he must not ruin his children's future for the sake of the past, but learns "better late than never...
...friendly, quietly amusing, rather slow picture, Apley is not quite what it might have been: a shrewd comedy of character and of the effect upon character of a highly special place and atmosphere. The film sketches rather than explores the character and fails to do what movies can do so well: convey a special mood...