Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front of a piano in Vienna. His narrow dexterous fingers sank into the keys of the instrument as if sowing in neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...
...with the Lampoon back in the straight and narrow path, not the thin and feeble sheet of seventeen years ago (and earlier) but a good, honest wad of text pages and advertisements, its subscribers have become its friends and all others ought to become subscribers without delay. Harvard deserves a first rate magazine, and this...
Last week champions of the oyster arose with claims of even greater atrocities. Consider the oyster, said they. First, he (or she) is ripped unkindly from the shell, stuck through the flesh with a fork, dipped in a smarting pepper cocktail, partly mangled by human teeth, squeezed down a narrow canal, smothered to death in the gastric juices of the human stomach. How can civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium...
...invading team comes to Soldiers Field with a record which insures the Crimson players enough opposition to put on a close and well-played contest. The Granite State nine has won from Tufts, conquerors of Yale, and lost a game to Dartmouth by only a narrow margin last Tuesday...
...Knowlton's Point, Ark., 18 flood-refugees were giving thanks for their narrow escape from the growling > waters which had driven them from their homes. They had been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...