Word: concertina
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...elder daughters, Fanny and Kate, married off fairly early, are relatively unimportant save for one unforgettable portrait of Kate's choice, whose trousers are always so long that they adopt a "concertina effect" around his ankles. Lena, the fourth daughter, seems faintly reminiscent of Fannie Hurst's Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29)-a large, silent girl who moVes monosyllabically through the story and a length marries a rattle-brained young artist...
...family, too, but tragedy overtook them?and she moved once more. Front Street again?saving a gutter-child from horror?scrubwoman's tasks ? discovery that the Bixbys, with her son, had moved to New York?the fantastic adventure of Willy?and Bertha's anonymous gift of a battered concertina to the son she never spoke to?a gift that put him on the path of music and led him to become a great pianist, later. Passage of years?Bertha at last returned to Front Street?to find the old landmarks changed, the old boarding house gone, herself growing...
...little deception and the mixture was not always a happy one. The best exemplification of the fast running alert attack shown in the East was furnished by Harvard and Colgate. The latter team, however, suffered from the lack of a quarterback who had mastered the art of playing the concertina with the defence...