Word: decrepit
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...famed Brothers Behn; of alimentary disorders; in his villa at St. Jean-de-Luz, France. Born in the Virgin Islands of French-Danish-English-Dutch ancestry, educated in Corsica and Paris, he and his brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West, they formed I. T. & T. When they leaped into world prominence...
...could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle gold on some wisp of hair. And he had felt deliciously sad about himself and these tall willowy dancing girls who would soon be frowsy and decrepit. These fine lads going out late into the world to be broken slowly on the wheel of fortune. Thank God he had another year. He felt so sad for the whole world he could have cried. And suddenly he didn't care and wandered away inconsolable into the dark night...
...American feminine element has an important viewpoint; we must address ourselves particularly to it. ... It is vital that young, good-looking and active speakers be sent to the United States instead of unhealthy, decrepit, tired, feverish, wornout, coughing and trembling ancients bound into frock coats. These have to be put to bed upon their arrival with hot water bottles at their feet, have to be awakened just in time for a conference, and when rushed to a station thousands of precautions have to be taken. That is why France is pictured as a tired, worn-out country...
...refuse apology, flatly to deny that Izvestia speaks for the Government (which all Soviet newsorgans do). Not backing down in the least, Izvestia hailed Persia's defiance of Britain last week declaring, "Its repercussions in the East will help deepen the cracks in the shattered structure of a decrepit British Empire...
...joke about the unavailability of the books at Widener has grown decrepit with age. Familiar enough are the pencilled notations stating that the much desired book is mislaid, or else that all copies are in use, not to be returned for some weeks. The blame for this does not lie entirely with the Library staff, but to a large degree with the rule that most books may be kept out for a whole month...