Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Works. On March 31, 1889, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, a tiny, frail nun, daughter of a Lombard farmer, arrived in New York with six' members of the order she had formed, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII had sent her to work among the Italian immigrants who were finding neither a welcome nor prosperity in the New World, and worse, in the eyes of the Church, were losing their faith and piety...
Charles Edward Garman, Amherst's frail 19th Century logician: "Garman taught . . . not the technique of logic, but the practical application of logical methods. . . . He was capable of making a false statement seem convincing, as a means to an end. This was extraordinarily stimulating; you never felt quite sure whether to accept what was said or not; you had to think...
...when the Civil War was lost and a squadron of Union cavalry rode down a dusty road and into his home town of Lynchburg, Va. A blue-clad rider hauled him up into the saddle and asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
Szigeti and Bartók spent some time together at Davos, Switzerland (the locale of The Magic Mountain) in 1928, while Bartók was treated for consumption and Szigeti recuperated from pneumonia. Szigeti remembers him as a slight, frail man with the burning blue eyes of a zealot, whose hair had turned white at 22. They later played in concerts together all over Europe. Said Szigeti: "He was an anachronism . . . who should have lived in the times of Haydn and Beethoven. He couldn't fit into big business...
Oldtime Cinemactress Lillian Gish, rarely seen in films during recent years, is a lacy, frail, sweet Miss Susie. As an earnest but queasy would-be surgeon living in her house, hulking Sonny Tufts, Exeter-and-Yale-educated in real life, acts with unusual restraint. The inevitable local-professor's-pretty-daughter is talented, wide-eyed, blonde Newcomer Joan Caulfield. The plot complications are tried & true, but the medical-school atmosphere seems reasonably authentic-and the medical schoolboy humor is good-natured and not too grisly...