Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading as bandits. Finding that the man with a black handkerchief over his face who carries her off is her husband, she experiences a change...
...read a memorial plaque, solemnly unveiled last week at ominous Serajevo. The letters of pure gold are deeply sunk in green marble. Pensively upon the stone broods the image of a frail young man. He proclaimed liberty by foully assassinating the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. But the World War which followed did liberate Serajevo from Austrian rule. Therefore to his people a foul assassin is a Hero (TIME...
...Flimsy, frail contraptions that will soar in little wind, will take a man size load off the ground with no power: those were the gliders. Outstanding were the German craft introduced by the American Motorless Aviation Corp...
...careers of child prodigies the passing of a year may mean the loss of prodigiousness. Frail, ethereal qualities which appeal in the diminutive often seem puny when legs are longer. Hence last week the interest of a great Manhattan audience was tinged with fear as it flocked to hear Yehudi Menuhin, 12, in his first violin concert since his year abroad (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928; Jan, 7, 1929). Reluctantly many noted the inevitable change when he came on stage carrying a full-sized violin. The chubby legs were longer. The accustomed white suit had been changed for a solemn black...
...gambol. When Composer MacDowell died it was his wish that his home in Peterborough, N. H. be used as a retreat by U. S. creative artists. After his fatal mental collapse there was little money left and it was Mrs. MacDowell who undertook to execute his plan. Though frail and crippled, she gave concert and lecture tours, raised nearly $100,000 in the name of the Edward MacDowell Association. Simultaneously with her efforts grew the Peterborough Colony where there are now 600 acres instead of the original 200 and 23 studios available for four months of the year...