Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Sunday a gaunt, austere figure with sideburns, long frock coat and tight, narrow trousers leaves his home in Paris' Latin Quarter, crosses the Seine and heads for Père-Lachaise Cemetery. For hours he strolls among the dead marshals, statesmen and courtiers of the dead Napoleonic Empire; he never fails to pause before the tombstone of the Comtesse de Girardin, the greatest beauty of the Little Corporal's court. Jean Auguste Louis Armand Fèvre, by profession a dealer in rare books, by appearance a bourgeois gentleman of Napoleon's day, has chosen to live...
...There's nothing in them but they're awfully good. You eat them one at a time." A little girl clutched a large Cellophane-wrapped goody as if it were a doll. Explained her father: "She's never seen so much in her life." In dark, narrow alleys off Regent Street, boys played a game of marbles with rock candy balls, and the winners had a feast...
Outside the courtroom he stood around smiling but narrow-eyed, shaking hands and receiving the adulation of the party faithful. No matter whether he was acquitted or convicted this was the triumphant climax of a career of 20 years. Whatever he felt in his innermost heart, like his father, he kept his own counsel. At each court day's end, he stepped along the marble corridor, hulking and heavy-footed, walking down his own dark tunnel...
Most serious cause for the tightening of the parking rules, police say, is the difficulty fire-fighting equipment experiences getting down the narrow streets...
...progress from circuit-riding man-of-God to arrogant director of a nation's morals. It does little to explain the man or the moral climate in which he was bred, but it is a useful and embarrassing reminder that for over a decade Cannon's narrow vision and flinty prohibitionist zeal were among the most persuasive forces in U.S. politics...