Word: handfull
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The impossibility of seeing (during the holidays) more than a handful of the shows current in New York reduces the visitor to Broadway to careful scrutiny of reviewers comments.
"In fact the Chinese Revolution of 1926 reminds one of England in 1642, France in 1789, Russia in 1917, any, in short, of Europe's great social or political upheavals. It is a real civil war based on a major issue that transcends for the time being all individual interests...
Conductor Ernest Bloch came all the way from San Francisco to lead a picked handful of men with strings through Bach's steamy and impetuous "Brandenburg" concerto in G. Some of the temperament of this first performance extended, unhappily, into their execution of the next item, Mozart's...
While a handful of Mexican bandits were kidnaping the retired Long Island butcher, Joseph Rosenthal (see above), over 3,000 Mexican Yaqui Indians were doing their best to kidnap that doughty one-armed warrior, General Alvarp Obregon, onetime (1920-24) President of Mexico.
The Approach. Perhaps it was that colossal, utterly abandoned effort by Mr. Joyce to glut up and put on paper the total sensory-esthetic experience of a handful of slovenly Dubliners during 24 hours that encouraged Mr. Wells to cast pattern to the winds and glut up the entire experience...