Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finishing a turn in As Thousands Cheer one Manhattan night last winter, plump Dancer Marilyn Miller whirled airily offstage, bumped brutally into her costar, frail Dancer Clifton Webb. Up to her side to berate Dancer Webb leaped Chorusman Chester ("Chet") O'Brien, who was also the show's second assistant stage manager. When it was over. Dancer Webb threatened to quit if O'Brien were not fired, Dancer Miller threatened to quit if O'Brien were fired. Everybody stayed...
...Tribune Building a block from Times Square. Her office is in a corner of the sixth floor, one story above the city room. It is a man's room. Seated in a man's chair, at a man's desk, Mrs. Reid looks singularly small and frail. Tiny she is; frail she is not. Her grey hair is bobbed and waved, and her thin straight lips are carefully rouged, but the wife of the president of the Herald Tribune is anything but pliant. She moves slowly, speaks slowly in a voice which to a stranger sounds disinterested...
Angelina, the psychotic Portuguese, was frail, nervous and shy as a child. She wet the bed and had nightmares. This annoyed her stepmother. After Angelina began working as a chocolate-dipper she began to run around with boys, not for money but for trinkets, meals, good times. She bobbed her hair and said a kidnapper did it. Soon after, she caused her parents more anguish by dyeing her hair a flaming red and taking to bright-colored berets, tawdry dresses and high heels. When they found her bedding in a cellar with an Italian janitor's son, they...
...smaller islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. One night last week a gentle breeze from the North Pacific was wafting across the two little islands and into the dragon's maw. At 4 o'clock the next morning a juggernaut of air hit, without warning, the frail little houses that crowd the southern tip of Japan...
...acted as Flaherty's housemaid between scenes), a handsome child named Michael and a curly-haired fisherman known as Tiger King, the film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark by Tiger King & friends...