Word: frailing
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...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...
...Mayflower Hotel apartment in Washington lay Carter Glass, dean of the U.S. Senate. Now 87, the distinguished senior Senator from Virginia was frail and silent, enfeebled by age and long illness. Not for more than two years had he answered a roll call on the Senate floor. Virginia's junior Senator, round-faced, economy-minded Harry Byrd, had carried on for both...
...drafty and the Holland cold bit deep in Hut 2-B. The two frail old ladies from Germany-Internees No. 00001989 and No. 00001990-huddled in their double bed, shivered as they peered through a windowpane at the internment camp where 6,000 German civilians were held...