Word: narrowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone as Poor Tom on Lear's heath, was befriended by Quong Lee, Chinese storekeeper, to the day when his first short story was published. Calm faces of Canton and Malaya move through mist down a narrow London street; in bad doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm, dry, nor does he try to cast over the shiverings...
...relate some of these varied experiences during the course of his address, which will also be devoted to describing some of the characteristics of the countries flown over, with particular attention to flight conditions. He will also show moving pictures of the various amusing incidents and some of the narrow escapes which the fliers passed through...
...acrid commentary and allusion which flows from the narrow lips of a prize fighter's manager reflects most of the merriment. This manager and his deplorably dense lightweight are abruptly added to the menial quota of a haughty home on Fifth Avenue. They fall in love with others of the servants; they stir up a resounding second-act fight that would do credit to any picture play; they win the love match and the lightweight championship of the world...
...from Scripture, lard all his public speeches. "The big thing in life is work. . . . Success comes by doing the common, everyday things of life uncommonly well." Hardly original, these utterances are those of a man to whom practicality is native, abstraction difficult, the defect of whose thought is rather narrowness than looseness. Narrow also is the needle...
...Narrow Street. Quiet, light comedy. Matt Moore, as a muddler, is unmuddled by Dorothy Devore, waif. Conventional but commendable...