A glimmer of respect flared in Connolly's eyes; then he dropped into a stance with his hands up to guard his face while his elbows covered his mid-line. Tucson could see at a glance that the detective knew what he was doing and, ...
Chinatown. City within a city.
1920 in CCRC 4 : 8 ; Judith Fingard , J. Guildford and D. Sutherland , Halifax : the First 250 Years ( Halifax : Formac , 1999 ) , 139 . 15 The Maritime Merchant , 11 July 1918 : 28 . 16 HH , 28 Feb. 1919 . 17 HH , 15 March 1919 .
... useless. Arithmetic and spelling were worse than useless. They looked at me, frustrated. I was no better than their father's employees who every weekend furtively shoved twenty substandard ducks into their gate and then furtively jumped ...
Ethnic enclaves as an alternative means of incorporation into the larger society.