Word: decrepit
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...lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini mended it with string and sealing wax; in a Graz convent that the Mother Superior gave her her first singing lessons; in Graz that she sang first in public-the contralto part in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony-earned $6 that bought a second...
...prize fighters grow old, they become decrepit; young bruisers whom they could once have walloped, beat their battered noses and knock their false teeth out of mouth. Yet, rebels against time, because they love the sound of invisible watchers in the dark or because they know that they will be unable to earn a living in some other profession, they continue to fight, in little arenas and smelly, half filled armories...
...Walker, however, without whom no amusement is complete, appears by proxy. There is no plot and the best that could be hunted up in the way of a hero was poor old Trader Horn whose senile and ridiculous maunderings in Manhattan form the framework for little pictures of less decrepit celebrities...
...taken to a hospital to recover from her wounds, while the 6,000 people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected...
...array of burlesque houses, beans, the intersection of Boylston and Tremont streets on a windy day, an interesting and odiferous market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train and boat connections elsewhere. There are other assets but these save the city from utter blacklisting...