Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frail body, however, could stand no further onslaught, and when he complained of pain in his bladder, his physicians realized that his kidneys were weakened and knew that the end was near. Dr. Milani rose from his own sickbed, administered adrenalin. But it was no use. In a short time the Pope's heart gave...
Among this gang Mark Cullen was handicapped by his size and social position. He was a skinny, frail moppet, whose father was rural superintendent of schools. But he had plenty of nerve, and on Hallowe'en night (one of the funniest as well as the least printable episodes in the book), or on their petty thieving raids, Mark was as tough as the rest...
...Right Living.") at the age of 60 despite the best professional opinion that it would fold in six months. In his 70s he told off Roosevelt I about Agriculture. Into his 80s, to half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce. He left his son with a distrust of politics and a dislike of Herbert Hoover so strong that in 1928 Henry III deserted his traditional Republicanism...
...Ananda was designated constitutional monarch in 1935 by Siam's Strong Man, Premier and Army Chief Colonel Phya Phahol Pholphayuha Sena, when King Ananda's uncle, childless King Prajadhipok, abdicated. King Ananda Mahidol was allowed to remain in Switzerland to complete his schooling and build up his frail physique, thought unfitted for the wet May-to-October monsoon of Siam. Few months ago Strong Man Phya Phahol "suggested" that King Ananda return to his kingdom at least for a visit...
...Hastings, and the Music Building--a truly blood-chilling panorama. Behind him lie the gray Azores of Phillips Brooks House and the quiet harbors of the Yard. But, Columbus-like, the Vagabond pushes on into the unfamiliar waters ahead. Tacking unskillfully along the North Cambridge car line, Vag's frail cockleshell almost at once encounters a large white island; whose towering stone cliffs rise perpendicular from the water's edge. San Domingo, perhaps? No, young Columbus, it is on the map as Littauer Center. It is a new island in these parts. It is very long and solid and important...