Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German, Dutch, Bohemian glass, made in the Middle Ages, blown into the tiny translucence of spray bubbles, wreathed into frail, florent cornucopias, drawn into the cruel delicacy of icicles, chiseled into the sunny symmetrical angles of molecular bodies, the collection of Dr. H. W. Muehsam of Berlin was the finest private collection in the world. Last week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Manhattan, and the Chicago Art Institute announced that they had jointly purchased Dr. Muehsam's collection. When German experts have impartially divided the pieces into two equal parts, all will be shipped...
...last week, the little brown persons were bewildered and enchanted. As the instruments were tuned, the merry apes danced in their cages and cocked their ears. When the drummer tapped his drum, mandrill and marmoset cowered and wept with an uncontrollable fear. As the violins swept up in the frail music of a waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered, in a frenzy of fantastic enthusiasm. At last the bass viol boomed; then all the little monkeys, blinking and peering, pushed their...
...drilling in of new oil wells or the shooting* of old ones in certain districts of the state. The peg for the order was the commission's belief that it was empowered to conserve the state's natural resources. Gypsy Oil Co.† considered that peg too frail; protested at once that the order was unconstitutional because it deprived the company of enjoying the fruits of oil production, because it was discriminatory, because it took property without due process of law. The courts may be called to judgment...
...competent is Hiram Bingham to form a true mental picture in this way? He is Republican to the core; intensely and practically pious; rich because of the wealth of a small, frail wife who has borne him seven sons; and learned with the knowledge of an explorer in Peru and of a onetime (1909-24) professor at Yale University. He is human enough to set above his mantle framed letters from various "celebrities." Of recent years he has made a sound, tenacious success in politics. His voice, his jaw and his eyes are hard-not particularly pleasant. Therefore, it would...
...anonymity so necessary for successful indiscretions in his native Boston. His humor runs sooner to dubious epigrams than to clever psychology and his wit limps much of the way. But what he does not know about ancient Rome he invents neatly. Readers with a weakness for scandal, however frail, will applaud his effort to do with Cleopatra what Professor Erskine did for Helen of Troy...