Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot he had only one toe, the great. His right foot had no toes at all. But at the ankle there was a movable, thumblike protuberance. This, as he grew older, he used effectively for washing himself, brushing his teeth and sometimes writing and drawing. Later he learned to grasp objects between his cheek and shoulder, thereby to open doors, hold a pencil or a stick with which he would strike the keys of a typewriter...
...York City, Paul Duminuco, boss plasterer, strode through the echoing white chambers of a new building examining work of his underlings whose $4,500 payroll he carried in a satchel. As he clumped about on the third floor, strong hands seized him from behind, tore the satchel from his grasp, bound his wrists with wire. Cruel hands sloshed wet quicklime into his eyes, jammed wet mortar into his protesting mouth, flung him into a closet with his eyeballs sizzling, his teeth and tongue fast setting into their mortar plug. . . . Some hours later, Joe, laborer, rescued, doctors revived poor Plasterer Duminuco...
...MAN?In which the thousand-dollar reach of certain forlorn city dwellers far exceeded their thirty-dollar grasp...
...precious moments "The Wedding Song", the other picture on the program, showed an excellent grasp of pearl fishing in Pacific waters. Not that we know much about the pearl business, but the boys were going at it in a nice sort of way and were getting up lots of oysters. Nobody was opening them up just then, but everything pointed to a couple of necklaces by sundown, if the cysters crashed through all right...
This important fact must be kept well in mind if one is to grasp the full significance of the play. Otherwise its overtones, its subtle flavor will be entirely lost. Each character must be viewed as playing several parts simultaneously, as being at once a creature of two or more worlds. The author, true to his conception, expects the audience to contribute their share in helping create the illusion but he has made it easy for them to achieve this participation by removing the boundaries between the stage and the stalls and making the whole theatre the scene...