Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to his royal patient's frequent and serious illnesses, Dr. Sassard observes: "I have always been surprised by the reserves of energy and courage that exist in so frail a body. . . . The attention of the public and of Europe is directed at the two sons of the Sovereign. The first, the Heir Apparent, is now 19 years old. He generally lives far removed from the capital, surrounded by spies, restricted in any independent action he may take, frequently and harshly rebuked by his father. . . . Prince Makonnen, who is 12 years old, is his father's great favorite...
Gold Chains; Ice Water- After so intimate a glimpse through the eyes of Man of the Year's longtime physician, His Majesty's achievements in 1935 are all the more staggering. They are the ripened fruit of a physically frail Semite's lifetime of goodness and wisdom. It was good to cast into golden chains the Ethiopian who would otherwise have been Emperor instead of Haile Selassie, for this individual had strayed into the Mohammedan faith. Had the late Lij Yasu been on the Throne today the League of Nations might not have displayed such anxiety...
Since 1918 he has been perpetual President. Last week to a solemn gathering of Czechoslovakian statesmen the frail and hoary but still mentally great President said: "I am aware that I am no longer strong enough for the task. Therefore, I resign. ... I recommend to you Dr. Benes as my successor. . . . You, Mr. Premier, I ask to take cognizance of my resignation and undertake the necessary steps...
Scrooge is a British version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, released for the U. S. Christmas trade by Paramount. A properly mean, frowzy, waspish Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a fine, spindly-legged Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop), a frail, treble-voiced Tiny Tim, and a number of thoroughly capable minor actors move through snowy London streets and warm Early Victorian interiors. Projected with tenderness but without sentimentality are the sequences showing the rousing Christmas of the Cratchit family. Good shot: Cockney harridans cackling over the belongings of the dead Scrooge in the Christmas-yet-to-come...
...display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels in Europe, pictures him as the frail, pugnacious son of adoring parents. At the age of 26 he became pastor of the United Congregational Church in fashionable Newport, married happily, got involved in church politics, taking his father's side in intrachurch squabbles, wrote a thundering attack on Huxley, whom he accused of ignorance, insincerity...