Word: decrepit
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During the last few days the garage men around the square have been doing a rushing business trying to revive decrepit automobiles in time to make the trip...
...PRISONER WHO SANG-Johan Bojer-Century ($2.00). Enthusiastically heralded by its jacket blurb as "A Peer Gynt in prose," this is the story of a Norwegian of many aliases, a strange lad who wanders through the countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
Mr.H. Glynn-Ward, in the Literary Digest's International book Review, has put Canada's ease. Canada is, not a land of eternal snows inhabited solely by vicious French Canadians, officers of the Royal Northwest Mounted always in summer costume, and decrepit log cabins, Transportation, He asserts, is provided for a large number of automobiles and a network of very fair railroads. Eskinio dog teams, while still employed in the outlying, districts, are no longer the only means of communication between Toronto and Montreal. And it does not snow all year round...
...assembled, including in their number Adam Marty. This year 34 places were set as usual, shining with bright silver and glassware. In the center of the table, amid the decorations, rested the consecrated bottle. Thirty chairs were draped with black, among them Adam Marty's. One survivor was too decrepit to make the journey from his Florida home. But three men dined where once the 34 had supped. Too soon will the bottle's cork be pulled...
...come back " of Jess Willard, the shutting out of the Giants by decrepit, old Babe Adams, and a few other prodigies of belligerent age have featured sufficiently in newspaper philosophizings to make it stale and unprofitable to dwell upon any subject in which a man mocks at his years and refuses to succumb to them. However, here is an instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini...