Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom war has robbed. Now 29, Actress Gish appeared on the stage for the first time when she was 4 years old at a salary of $10 weekly. Now she has $8000 a week, a police-dog, a canary, a gluttonous appetite for licorice candy, and a reputation for frail, goldenhaired beauty that has suggested, in a recent popular song, this recipe for exceptional loveliness: "Put Cleopatra into a dish, add a dash of Lillian Gish...
Britishers delight in reading about such supermen as Ambrose Sheridan; supermen who rise to journalistic and then political eminence, who marry beautiful and frail aristocrats, who carry a bee in their derby bonnets about resuscitating the human race or the working classes of England. Author McKenna writes about his superman less pompously than did H. G. Wells, less seriously than did John Galsworthy, less romantically than did Michael Arlen, more rapidly than did W. L. George. Youthful and prolific, Author McKenna knows his subject at first hand; through the War and until two years after Sonia, in 1917, brought...
...revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear him play a new concerto which had disturbed and pleased the International Festival for Contemporary Music last June in Frankfurt. But when Conductor...
...Schaick watched his passengers who were discovering to their horror that all the life pre servers were full of dust, not cork, that all the life boats sank as soon as they were launched. He watched a few deckhands trying to attach the hose which was so old and frail that it broke in their hands. There was a whining report as the port rail of the after deck collapsed and then the screams of children and women who soon blackened in the heat. A little boy climbed the flag pole, trying to get out of the flames. The flag...
...BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined...