Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...herself to him, but he goes to War just the same. When she bears a child Blount, who is impotent, thinks it is his. Leda does not undeceive him. He has grown more & more powerful, more & more self-assured during Wartime politics. But wise Leda knows on what a frail basis his necessary self-assurance stands. When Clune comes, crippled, back from the front Leda will not tell even him whose child she has borne, sends him back to Kathy to make the best of her. Her incomparable management has enabled her two true loves to double-cross their Rubicons...
...matter of routine the "Old Fox" was decorated posthumously by Emperor Hirohito with the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun and Paulownia. His frail corpse, enclosed in the austere white pine coffin dictated by Japanese custom, lay in the hall of his official residence where he was shot down, while 500 officials, including representatives of all parties, paid their formal respects, pronounced fulsome eulogies. That evening the body was cremated. Next day part of the ashes were sent to Okayama, the rest interred at Tokyo...
...four tedious days spent in selecting a jury resolved themselves into a tussle of West against East, of Lawyer Darrow against Prosecutor John Kelley. Mr. Darrow, whose 75 years and frail health cut the daily court sessions short, weeded Hawaiians, Japanese and Chinese out of the jury as often as he could with peremptory challenges. Other Orientals disqualified themselves when they exclaimed that the four defendants "ought to be shot." Broad, Irish-looking Prosecutor Kelley, though essentially fair in his tactics, dismissed ten whites from service. The final mottled jury, composed of three Chinese, a Hawaiian, a Portuguese, a German...
...practical reasons Leginska wears a black velvet costume something like a Prince Albert. Frail shoulder straps would never survive the passion she puts into her music. Only Debussy and the like could be conducted with safety by a lady in conventional evening dress...
...been previous elaboration, sometimes dramatic, sometimes melodramatic, on the theme of the scion of two ancient, rich and grotesquely conservative lines (Richard Arlen) who weds a chorine, Daisy (Nancy Carroll), and takes her back to the ancestral mansion. Smooth sequence, good photography, competent acting, have not resuscitated this frail, old plot. The dowager mother (Pauline Frederick), psychopath! cally jealous of her son's affections, willfully twists Daisy's innocent relationship with the family black sheep (John Litel) into a scandal. One night Daisy, lonely and desperate, gets drunk and inadvertently runs away with Litel. Though she immediately returns...