Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frail, aged Englishman had his play, Young England, produced. The critics voted it the worst show that had opened in London in 20 years: nobody gave it three nights. It ran, to packed houses, for over a year...
...20th-century radio, when a company under Conductor Josef Honti gave it a first broadcast over NBC's Red network. John Gay's ribald lines had been studio-broken, but there were still some 18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle...
From the Washington front, another gun began firing from an unsuspected emplacement. For probably the first time in his checkered career Cyrus Eaton found he had old, reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan...
...Frail, feminist Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, a sculptor for more than 60 of her 80-odd years, long knew and admired the late great Suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Her statue of Miss Anthony, rising (with fellow Feminists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton) from a sea of Carrara marble, rests in the crypt of the U. S. Capitol-"the first monument of woman to women," states Mrs. Johnson in her Who's Who paragraph, "in any nat. capitol in the world." Fortnight ago Mrs. Johnson faced eviction from her studio-home in Washington. Thereupon she did what Susan Anthony...
...Late to Laugh' I have tried to express in a dynamic manner the tremendous pace demanded by the city of frail flesh and blood," Freedley explained...