Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome, smiling seven-year-old with dancing blue eyes, braided hair, and a rag doll which she swung gaily by its feet as we talked. She told me she was from Lehnin and her father & mother were waiting in the dark hall outside. Herr Arnold finally appeared-a hunchback under five feet tall. His brown, leathery face pursed up with a wry grin as he explained his prosaic cause for flight. He had idly signed a petition for the re-election of the local mayor. After a new mayor was elected, Arnold had been evicted by the police, on various...
...plan for helping these people. The shabby office, beyond offering a few nights' lodging, can only register names, count them and ask: What now? The answer can come only from one of those "top level" decisions in halls of state far from the world of the smiling hunchback or the frightened housewife...
Alexander Pope, a brilliant, vindictive little hunchback who became the greatest satirical poet of his century (the 18th), usually had the last word, and usually it lasted. Vain and touchy, a brilliant, malicious destroyer of reputations, he was a critical menace to the dull and mediocre in life and literature. Also one of the ablest craftsmen of verse who ever lived, he packed more in a couplet than others could in a stanza. Unlike many modern poets, he wrote both lucidly and sharply; he intended to be understood by every intelligent reader. He died of dropsy at 56. These characteristic...
...that other side of show-business that Betty Grable never sees. A music-hall singer named Jenny Lamour and her piano-playing husband are plugging along in vaudeville when Jenny gets an offer for a contract from a big movie producer who happens also to be an aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks a bottle over his head. The police pick up her husband for murder but Jenny decides to keep mum to both her husband and the police, thinking that her confession would destroy his love. Her failure...
Circole Haliano and the French Club are prosecuting a twin bill at Agassiz on Friday and Saturday, March 12 and 13. "La Giava," or "The Jar" is being presented by the Italian society. It concerns a hunchback, who, in repairing a landlord's jar gets caught inside the jar. Jean-Pierre Barrleclli '51 will direct...