Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very little seems to remain. Yet on such a frail basis is built "Judy", which came to the Hollis Monday night, en route for New York, and a thoroughly entertaining evening it affords...
Practicabilities. The-fastest liner in the world is the 30,704-ton Mauretania with a superlative speed of but 27 knots. Only frail, slender destroyers attain the proposed velocity of Signer Mussolini's liners, already christened by rumor the Duce and the Rex. Allegedly an Italian inventor has conceived the idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost...
Bashful charwomen hid their worn shoes beneath modest skirts, balanced frail teacups on large red hands...
...Borodin's stock fell momentarily in Chinese eyes. But he has brought much beside an inadequate coffin to China-gold, guns, ammunition, though not so much as is popularly believed. As he sped toward Wuchang with Mrs. Sun a wild rumor was concocted: that this frail, and by Chinese reckoning, beautiful woman would be set up as President of China to keep before the masses the great name: SUN YATSEN. Actually such a development is unthinkable because of the ideas about women prevailing among the unreconstructed Chinese. Mrs. Sun, "Mother of the Chinese Republic," gained that title exclusively...
...Story.* Out of the tempestuous waters of Leghorn Harbor and in upon the pitching deck of the U. S. clipper, Witch of the West, towards the evening of the 8th of July, 1822, is tossed a frail figure of perfections angelic rather than human. Its youthful, milk-white features are serene in apparent death. David Butternut, young and gigantic able seaman, trembles at the sight. Only a few hours before he has knocked dead a man who, though an arrant scoundrel, bore just such a seraphic countenance. Now remorseful and half afraid lest this be his victim's ghost...