Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that simple miracle worked by the parchment countenance of his old Chinaman, who later made signs and bestowed ginger. He still writes, briefly-of a sad-singing Chinee poet who could but die when well-meaning friends supplied him with his heart's desire; of a Chinee hunchback who may have been white-feathered Eros for a Limey roustabout and his pretty moll; or of a pious Chinee merchant who sacrificed his family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant. There are other tales, more drab and theatrical, of factory creatures in Stewpony and Clutterfield...
...acting, to dwell on a more pleasant subject, is entirely good. Those who saw some genius in the great hulking, tobacco chewing mule skinner of the "Covered Wagon," and later the king of the underworld in the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," will let his presence in the cast alone for a be the multitude of sins. If you have never seem him shaved and in the conventional after 6 o'clock dinner jacket it would be almost worth the chance to look. Then there is a hero who first gained fame because of a powerful jaw which looks well under...
Shelter is about a gang of outcasts residing under one of the New York bridges. A saintly hunchback is the central character, and a burly intruding kidnaper the principal flame of drama. It is inefficient...
...play is an exceedingly sunny charade about a hunchback who did others a great deal of good and finally straightened himself up. The technique is complicated by the fact that the reading of the play takes place within the play. The reader's voice dies, the lights go out and all at once you find actors striding about developing the tale that he has started...
Coach Knute Rockne, Merlin of football, shuffled his big squad like a pack of cards, sent in quarterback, fullback, halfback?eveyone, in fact, but the hunchback of Notre Dame. Even wizards cannot have a great team every year, and against an Army eleven that looked very much like a great team, his strategy could accomplish little. Score: Army 27; Notre Dame...