Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Baron Hayter (born: George Hayter Chubb), 98, frail son of a locksmith who built his family's tiny business into the famed Chubb & Sons' Lock and Safe Co., Ltd., in 1927 was raised to the peerage, became a director of the life insurance company that once refused him a policy because of his ill health, lived to be Britain's oldest peer; in London...
Died. Ida Stover Eisenhower, 84, frail, unassuming mother of five sons, among them General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff; in Abilene, Kans. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...since Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in 1911.* There have even been few good tries (Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, two by Gian-Carlo Menotti). Last week U.S. critics got a first look and listen to a year-old English opera, Peter Grimes. They almost unanimously hailed frail, 32-year-old Benjamin Britten as the most promising operatic composer...
...shortness: 33 minutes. Its five quick movements tumbled after each other, three of them without so much as a break. Instead of the shimmering wit of a Mozart or Haydn, they had familiar noisy devices from Shostakovich's tumultuous hour-long Seventh and Eighth symphonies. In the frail little Ninth, the whooping brasses and bassoon cadenzas were like 16-in. guns mounted on a PT boat...
Many of the top Mitsuis, though not exactly starving, were already jobless. They had returned, full circle, to the aristocratic idleness of the time before old Sokubei, the brewer. The most sadness, however, was expressed by one of the Mitsui "clerks" (actually a top executive), a grey, frail little man named Tatsuo Sumi, who is said to be descended from a 17th Century Mitsui clerk or banto. Tatsuo talked like an aging English butler whose lord & lady had come on evil times. "I have given my life to Mitsui," he said; "there is nothing more to do. . . . A glorious history...