Word: overpast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 of his penury any glamour other than that which properly belongs to peril overpast. His book will interest some because it is a fine piece of prose, some because it is the story of a man who knew too well that dingy code of the Ivy Restaurant, some because it is the life of Thomas Burke...
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