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Word: frailer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics, pleased by her attractive manner, by her knowledge of the stage, were forced to admit that her voice, though not unlovely in quality, is frail, that her vocal technique is frailer, that she was frequently unfaithful to pitch, that she is not up to Metropolitan standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debut | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed, as a part of the American colony in Paris; then, for a time, in England. This Spring she again sought America. When one saw her, she seemed frailer than ever. It was rumored that she was ill. She left town and sought the wilds of Croton-on-Hudson. Visitors to the colony there did not see her. She remained in seclusion. Then, with no warning whatever, this writer of passionate, free, gayly cynical love poetry, abandoned Croton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edna Millay | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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