Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnie and Mr. Williams (by Richard Hughes; produced by John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie Dowling), his wooden-legged wife Minnie (Josephine Hull), a young girl in the employ of the Devil, and the high-kicking flesh & blood leg that Minnie suddenly sprouted. The whole thing was a frisky parable in which good & evil did not wrestle so much as tickle each other with straws...
...Illinois Psychiatrist Richard L. Jenkins, stems from the Protestant Reformation, "which increased the number and severity of the moral taboos and denied the certainty of forgiveness through the confessional and penance." A man whose "halo is too tight," said Dr. Jenkins, suffers from too many inhibitions, and may wind up in a doctor's office with an obscure headache...
...everything that money could buy, including a 27-ft. sloop, which he christened Trimethy (after trimethylene chloride) and liked to sail when the wind and the waves were highest. A frail, good-looking kid, he picked up dysentery one summer, "chasing rocks" in Europe, and had to be shipped home on a stretcher...
...Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying to save. And sure enough, a flower gets stepped on, wind smacks the windows open, a lion breaks loose from a zoo, the grandfather clock bongs 11-and so forth. These busy goings-on are not really very creepy "unless you bring along an overwhelming will to believe. Stretch by stretch the story seems over-extended and overelaborate...
...second period, with the wind with them, the Crimson kept the ball almost continually in Princeton territory but could only score once. Charlie Weiss passed to Phil Potter, who deflected the ball into the goal...