Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever played at Forest Hills or Wimbledon. And they played ably- serving swiftly, slamming hard- there in a Manhattan armory, for the national junior indoor tennis championship. The larger of the two, Henry C. Johnson Jr., of Newton Academy (Waban, Mass.), was behind but wearing well, pulling up. The frail one, Horace G. Orser, of George Washington High School (Manhattan), had fatigued himself cracking over an impregnable service for two hard sets. The third set drew out to deuce, to 6-all, to 7-all. Frail Horace bit his lip, clung to his nerve, made it 8-7, became champion...
...back in six seconds. The three circumnavigators who went eastward were back in five seconds. They were three SSS's and three CCC's sent out by radio telegraph, racing around the World in relays. Really their time was poor-most of it being taken by the frail humans who relayed them on their way. The actual ether time for a signal to go around the World would be something less than one seventh* of a second...
Manhattan is waxing nautical. Not that its population shows any immediate tendency to go down to the sea in ships, but the metropolitan eye seems quite definitely cast toward the ocean and the more or less frail craft that sail it. After all, the city on the Hudson is a sea port and it is quite comprehensible that its children should feel a trifle salty at times...
...Book. These memories are simply and effectively told. They consist largely of anecdote, to which the author's unusually stirring career lends itself. On almost every page we find him defending frail beauty with his fists, dodging shrapnel, seizing would-be suicides on the Thames embankment, solving-or attempting to solve-criminal mysteries. Of the intimacies of his life -his mental career-he says relatively little, save for occasional discussion of the psychic phenomena which are his chief interest...
...Jesus Christs in the dialogue, and he apologized in the playbill. . . . Mr. Arthur Krock, who is an editorial companion of the authors on the staff of The New York World, describes their play as a barrack-room ballad. . . .1 thought that Miss Leyla Georgie's characterization of a, frail French girl, skipping gracefully from marine to marine, was a little masterpiece...