Word: halloweens
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...intensity and grace of Margaret O'Brien and to the ability of Director Minelli & Co. to get the best out of her. Her song (Drunk Last Night) and her cakewalk, done in a nightgown at a grown-up party, are entrancing little acts. Her self-terrified Halloween adventures, richly set against firelight, dark streets and the rusty confabulations of fallen leaves, bring this section of the film very near the first-rate. To the degree that this exciting little episode fails, it is because the Halloween setup, like the film as a whole, is too sumptuously, calculatedly handsome...
Next morning, for hundreds of miles, the eastern U.S. looked like the scene of a giant's Halloween. The storm warnings had served their purpose-the hurricane did but one-fifth the damage, took less than one-tenth of the lives claimed by the 1938 storm. But along every bay and inlet boats of all descriptions lay smashed, high & dry in streets, backyards and fields. Tens of thousands of trees were down; many a householder had to chop his way out. Some 300,000 telephones were out of service; and for many miles the power lines festooned the streets...
Into the yard came two sixth-grade girls, 11 and 13 years old, wearing black Halloween masks. One of them grabbed Margaret's arm, the other plunged into her chest a two-edge, two-inch blade. Margaret fell silently and the attackers fled. The teachers hustled the children indoors. A few minutes later, Margaret Patton died...
...Leavenworth has finally decided that Halloween is over. At least he has emerged from under that white stuff. . . . Bernie Lange, who also spent a day or so under the hoary grease, missed the chance of a life time Monday by being the little man who wasn't there when called to lead the entire company back from drill. The episode developed into a triple play. Keith Bond was the next guy called, but his voice cracked and he gave way to the astute George Funk, who is definitely the executive type...
Father had one unfortunate tendency-a deep hatred of small boys. He was always threatening to shoot them, "had converted the police department into an agency whose sole occupation seemed to be the jailing of these children." When Halloween came around, children vengefully hurled vegetables at the Sousa windows. One Halloween Father decided to put a stop...