Word: waif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved waif finds herself in a cruel predicament. She is more woman than artist, would rather sustain a black eye than the impersonal, scientific objectivity to which she is subjected by the experimenting male. The artist-scientist becomes conscious of the female only when the woman-object threatens to fight...
Recently there stood in the dock of the Old Bailey, famed London law court, one more tatterdemalion derelict of the thousands that file in and out of that hall of Justice every year. His furtive, watery eye, his mumbled speech and disconsolate countenance marked him for a waif indeed. He was penniless, friendless, and without an advocate...
...parents in various ways; it is said that the paternal Chaplin died of natural causes and his widow (known to the boards as Lily Harley) went into dressmaking, taught Charles and his brother Sydney to hem flounces; there is still another affecting scene in which Chaplin, a sallow waif in bloomers, is portrayed leading his starved mother to a poorhouse while London gamins revile him for his kindliness. It was owing to this incident, some doters, declare, that his eyes acquired that tragic, haunted cast...
...each other in a code made up of the names of street corners, taverns, dives, the memories of tattered times. In this book, Mr. Burke writes, for those whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the 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...
...Narrow Street. Quiet, light comedy. Matt Moore, as a muddler, is unmuddled by Dorothy Devore, waif. Conventional but commendable...