Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Others of the clay frontierswomen are as frail as Lillian Gish (F. Lynn Jenkins'), as strong as Abe Lincoln (James Fraser's), cute as Ann Pennington (Mario Korbel's), homely as Will Rogers (Mahonri Young's), expressionless as the Venus de Milo (Arthur...
Therefore, last week the frail cobweb relations between the Black Spider at Rome and the Red Spider in Moscow were strained to the rupture point. Moscow news-organs screamed that a British-led bloc of nations was being lined up against Russia; and even neutrals considered the Italian signature a British diplomatic victory...
...facile Author Golding is here engaged, and most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is physically cultivating shows her gratitude for favors absently bestowed, by saving him from an emotional cropper over a "toff" (lady). Back he goes to "frail,, wistful but sublimely impudent" Emma Creamer, of Poplar (equivalent: Hoboken). . . . Louis Golding, whose eloquent tonsure was lately a feature of Oxford University, has written with sunny charm before this (Seacoast of Bohemia, Sicilian Noon, etc.), and once out of his Jewish bones (Day of Atonement...
...Franz Liszt's story begins in 1811 on the plains of Hungary. His father, superintendent of a noble's estate, sees a frustrated dream realized when the frail six-year-old plays from memory, with never a lesson, an entire lengthy concerto. The child is taught at home, overworks to the verge of death but survives to take his virtuosity, the marvel of that countryside, to Vienna. Beethoven, old, deaf, impoverished, whose portrait presides over the Liszt piano at home, consecrates the spindly little acolyte with a kiss...
Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge...