Word: careworn
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Such lashing words must have cut deeper than pain; but suddenly their sting was soothed, as the great, soup-plate-like medal arrived and was placed in the trembly hands of General Umberto Nobile. Immediately his careworn features relaxed, and he seemed to bask at length in Peace...
...small, wiry man with the careworn face was happy. He had lived down his onetime nickname, "Nervous Nelly." Now the whole world knew him as the author of The Multilateral Treaty to Renounce War as an Instrument of National Policy. He has just received, last week, the unanimous promises to sign his treaty of the following nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, India, Rumania, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Irish Free State.* Never before had so many nations bound themselves with the U. S. to take a momentous step...
Bishop Murray, aged 69, careworn, has been trying, as his church paper Living Church states, "to visit all parts of the country that people might see him, not as an individual, but as the executive head of the Church in whom they might realize the unity of the Church." Of Dr. Silver's contumacy he had nothing immediate...
...Bent and careworn, the Earl said with quiet fervor...
...done no more, has at all events painted a very lively and life-like picture of the present youthful generation in full bloom--has shown the flapper and her partner what they really are (or think they are)--has interested and amused a large percent of the careworn American Public; and for such things, should be thanked. Even if he does falter noticeably in his latest writings and his most strenuous admirers cannot but admit that he does the censure should fall "more in sorrow than in anger...