Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BAZALGETTES?Anonymous?Harper ($2.50). A girl who vowed to marry the first man who asked her; a clever but frail parody of the Victorian novel...
Improving health has put pink into the thin, sallow cheeks of Squire Robert Worth Bingham, the Kentucky publisher (Louisville Courier-Journal) who, when first appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely...
...Raven (Universal). Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi and Boris ("Frankenstein") Karloff, foremost U. S. cinemonsters, first played together in The Black Cat, "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's story (TIME, May 28, 1934). The Raven "suggested" by that frail, pathetic poet's best-known poem, suffers chiefly from the obligation its producers felt to give it more bloodcurdling situations and paraphernalia than The Black Cat. Consequently the picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. One imposing piece of equipment is a bedroom which descends to the basement like an elevator when its owner wishes to harass...
Sixteen hundred select U. S. doctors who belong to the American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case...
...over the railings to watch the eating & drinking better, were the womenfolk. At the speakers' table big, bluff President Edward Dickinson Duffield took his place, and close to him his good old friend, Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Prudential's longtime consultant on vital statistics. Dr. Hoffman, a frail and fretful oldster, fidgeted as he ate and drank. For President Duffield had scheduled the banquet as Dr. Hoffman's 70th birthday party. It was a special salute to him, and a farewell. He had passed his company's age limit and, willynilly, was retired...