Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miniver is haunted by evanescence. Each of her little sketches has the same haunted quality, an echo of the sense of time slipping away, which is Mrs. Miniver's main concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful...
Konoye's weakness is in his nerves. He runs away from himself. As a boy he wanted to relinquish his title and go to the U. S. as an immigrant. He uses his frail health as a sort of storm cellar, into which he retires whenever he sees a political twister coming. Offered the Premiership after the bloody February 26 Revolt of 1936, he retired to his "sick" bed and did not get up until someone else had been appointed. When he finally did become Premier, he lost eight pounds in his first week in office. A prolonged "cold...
...that the amount of any one physical component, singly considered, is far less important to temperament than are balances and ratios among all three. For example, the body types 514 and 541 both have the same amount of endomorphic roundness, but the other two components, the strong and the frail, are reversed. So the 514 is a "long-legged, round-shouldered, completely soft and effeminate boy," whereas the 541 is a "ruddy, powerful, active, barrel-bodied boy who is usually full of bounding energy and is likely to become president of something...
Early this spring, George Stevens' step began to falter. His hair and his heavy beard and mustache had long since grown white. His eyes had never lost their piercing, humorous expression, but he was an old, frail man when they carried him from the Hartford Hotel, after 29 years' residence, and took him to the hospital. Last month he died...
...Tuskegee Big Jim placed a wreath on the Booker T. Washington monument (Washington lifting a -veil from the eyes of a startled slave). Then he greeted frail old George Washington Carver, ate fried chicken, reviewed a parade. After Negro Tenor Roland Hayes had made his radio debut in a broadcast from Boston, Mr. Farley compared Booker T. to George Washington, to Robert E. Lee, shook many a black hand, visited the founder's grave, went on to Auburn. Mr. Farley ate chicken once again (he hates it), entrained for Atlanta, with Georgia and North Carolina...