Word: frail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most noteworthy of the ancients braving the elements during the approaching months is a determined, if frail-looking black two-door Ford sedan of 1921 vintage, which belongs to John D. Little '51, of Eliot House. According to Little, this automobile is very similar to the first sedan ever made by Henry Ford...
...Game Hunter Osa Johnson announced that she will take along her mother, frail, silver-haired Mrs. Belle Lieghty, 73, of Chanute, Kans., on her next hunting trip into the wilds of Africa early in 1950. Their goal: bagging a gorilla to take the place of famed Gargantua, who died last month in Florida...
...last acts of frail, white-haired Composer Bela Bartok before his death in 1945 was to complete a viola concerto for William Primrose. In the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium last week, a near-capacity crowd brought Violist Primrose back onstage six times with thunderous applause. With Conductor Antal Dorati's Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, he had given the first public performance of Bartok's tragic, lyrical swan song...
Instead of becoming President, Herbert Burgman, a bald, frail, unimpressive little man, became the most thoroughly indicted traitor in U.S. history (69 counts of treason). On trial in Washington's U.S. District Court, he tried to save himself with a plea of insanity...
...best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). In which Catholic Author Firbank dwells with orgiastic relish on the sexual practices of a worldly Spanish churchman. Not for family reading. ¶The Artificial Princess (1934) returns to the favored Firbank theme of palace love; but its fluffy, frail ingredients, languidly mixed and half-heartedly baked, only give it the hurt look of a tortured meringue...