Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ogden Livingston Mills was, as everyone expected, appointed by President Hoover to succeed him as head of the Treasury. Mr. Mills's nomination was merely White House recognition of the fact that for the past year or so he has been practically running the Treasury over Mr. Mellon's frail shoulder. Between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Mills, 29 years his junior, there was almost a father-and-son relationship which culminated in last week's inheritance of office. Mr. Mills affectionately called his superior "the Old Man." Last year while Mr. Mellon was hopping about Europe, lining up foreign approval...
...absorbing triangle, and indeed an appealing one when the frail figure of the boy stands guard at the bedroom door to keep back the father. The outcome is not so much of a foregone conclusion as usual, and the audience is kept in some suspense till the final resolution of an effective storm scene...
Founder & editor of The Current Jewish Record is frail, earnest Sidney Wallach, 26, lately managing editor of the defunct Jewish Tribune. For active associates Editor Wallach enlisted Rabbi Louis Israel Newman as an authority on religion; Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary of the American Jewish Committee (of which the late Louis Marshall was president) as an expert on Jewish foreign affairs; and Dr. Israel Schapiro, chief of the Division of Semitic & Oriental Literature of the Library of Congress, authority on Jewish scholarship...
Died. Barbara Marquis, 13, frail daughter of Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, Manhattan wit; of pneumonia; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Like her father a talented versifier, she had lately written, edited, managed, multi-graphed and circulated a paper called The California...
...surging is all about; it thrusts itself upon our presence with persistency that will not be denied. The Vagabond has sickened of depressions, business cycles, nations in ashes, and economic theories. His frail mind can not encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place to obliterate the memory of the first. He has, therefore, resorted to an old dodge, one frowned upon by psychologists and sociologists. He has taken unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words...