Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious candidate for the new big air job would be wizened, frail-looking 58-year-old Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, a naval aviator since 1915, pilot of the NC1 on the first Navy transatlantic flight in 1919, commander of the carrier Hornet, which launched the Doolittle raiders against Tokyo, best known as the boss of famed Task Force 58 which has swept the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo...
...Frail, white-haired composer Gabriel Fauré, director of the Paris Conservatory, listened thoughtfully. A 14-year-old student was playing a set of piano variations. The recital over, Director Fauré awarded the Conservatory's first piano prize to the fair-haired boy, saying in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard: "This youngster . . . has true musicality . . . he will go far." That...
...this is all to the good. By slighting its frail claims to be taken seriously, the play can be indulgently enjoyed as a gaiters-and-crinoline version of the princess, the knight and the dragon. The real Robert Browning can be assumed somewhere else while an immensely dashing impersonator (Brian Aherne) knocks Miss Barrett and her matinee following for a loop. The real and highly pathological Father Barrett can continue to interest psychiatrists while the stage article (McKay Morris) gets himself roundly hated and mentally hissed...
Forces of the Axe. Mandel wrote of his intense suffering in captivity. It was physical: he could not sleep, his frail body was racked by pain. But he would not surrender. He addressed himself to Marshal Petain: "I am honored to have deserved this [German] hatred because, like a faithful disciple of Clemenceau, I have always applied an unbending will to the task of maintaining for France the place in the world which was assigned to her by the 1918 victory...
...Preachers. Edward Bellamy was born on March 26, 1850, the third son of a Baptist minister in Chicopee Falls, Mass. He was descended from a distinguished line of New England pirates and preachers. His father was "so fat he could not lean over"; his mother was "a piece of frail Dresden china." Edward, slight, studious, with keen, greyish eyes and a musical voice, failed his physical examination for West Point. He studied briefly in Germany and at Union College, read law by himself and set up as a lawyer. In two years he had one case...