Word: mender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waterloo, N. Y., as he has each winter for more than 30 years, Umbrella Mender Harry May appeared before a magistrate, reported no funds, no business in sight, pleaded guilty to vagrancy, was sentenced to six months in jail...
...revelling in the popular success of Childe Harold, a sprightly young lady named Harriette Dubochet, who had run away from home to become a prostitute, was at the height of her career. Very small with brown hair and large eyes, the daughter of a well-to-do stocking-mender, her life as a courtesan was not sufficiently distinguished to win her a place in history. She exercised no political influence, such as her contemporary Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, enjoyed through her hold on Lord Nelson. She never even inspired deep affection in her lovers. But as Harriette Wilson she traveled...
...howlings of 10-year-old Mickey Rooney as Puck, the fatuous grinnings of Dick Powell and Ross Alexander, as the lovers bemused by his potions; the spectacle of Joe E. Brown cracking lichee nuts in a manner derived from Once in a Lifetime, as he impersonates Flute, the bellows-mender; and the over-energetic jabberings of James Cagncy as Bottom, the weaver, effectively combine to detract from the real merits of the production. Omitting much of the superb poetry which is the play's chief virtue, the screen version still contrives to run too long (2½ hr.). Nonetheless...
Alison Skipworth as the social commission merchant and Harry Gold as the Jewish orchestra leader and romance mender give particularly able characterizations, while Gene Raymond as the in-human lever hits a new low. In spite of his assertion that he is "four years older than you are and knows all about life" we have to believe his other gem that "I have never played with anything except a violin...
...grafting a bit of skin from another lid, from the inner surface of the arm, or from behind the ear. Skin from those places approximates the thickness of an eyelid. Lids thus mended may blink,' wink, close. If his patients insist, Professor Vilray Papin Blair, St. Louis lid-mender, transplants a strip from the eyebrow. Eyelashes from eyebrows usually look straggly. Professor Blair also makes eyebrows with grafts from the scalp. These tailor-made eyebrows require frequent barbering...