Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monday afternoon three of the nominees (Cardinal Cerretti must stay watchfully in Paris to guard the frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on each his scarlet biretta-the four-cornered, pinched-top cap-then heard their oaths to defend conscientiously the papal bulls concerning nonalienation of the possessions of the Roman Church, nepotism, papal elections, and cardinalitial dignity. Last May 30, two Spanish prelates were elevated to the scarlet: Eustachio Ilundain y Esteban...
Such folks attended last week's ceremony, and at the skirts of the crowd they formed stood a frail little man whom only a news reporter or two recognized and addressed as Jean LeRoy...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning...
...events transpired it became evident that Maréchal Pétain did indeed mean business by his drive upon Bribane. Tanks advanced, smashing through frail adobe huts like mastodons treading upon eggshells. French 75's spotted the heights, and sent fragments of the rocky butte, deadly as shrapnel, splintering among the Moorish tribesmen. The whole mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient...
...Miss Joan Fry, 19-year old Wimbleton (England) finalist, was no small fry for Miss Mary K. Browne, three times champion, second in the national ranking, who went down, in a sensational upset, before the spectacular drives, the amazing volleys, and the affronting grin of the British frail...