Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know of about two and one half exceptions to this. High rents, high wages, high cost of living have led the American bookseller to specialize in the "high spot" items. An interesting miscellaneous stock does not pay for its keep in this country. The result is to considerably narrow the vision of the bookseller...
Into one of the building's obscure back entrances that evening, hulking, bearded Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza walked slowly, tiredly. He followed a narrow, twisting corridor to a door marked PRIVATE, went in, hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but at the opening performance there was never any telling when a call might come for Mr. Gatti to calm some backstage confusion. Gatti had been early for 24 other opening nights. His contract has three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would...
...literary roster. The "Critic" will serve mainly as a month piece for opinions concerning Harvard policy and educational trends, as well as national affairs, a function which no existing local publication taken as the sole basis of its endeavors. The periodical will contain articles by men beyond the narrow pale of Harvard life, a field until recently untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side...
...Buck: "I suppose, next to the Chinese among whom I have lived, there is no group of people whom I know better than I do the missionary. . . . I have heard him criticized in the bitterest terms and I have sometimes agreed with that criticism. I have seen the missionary narrow, uncharitable, unappreciative, ignorant . . . I can never have done with my apologies to the Chinese people that in the name of a gentle Christ we have sent such people to them. . . . "I came to see what you American Christians were.* . . . I found . . . that most of the missionaries were just like...
...NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though Publishers Doubleday, Doran blurb The Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit...