Word: frailing
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...publication in the same issue of the Journal of a short story by Nancy Hale, "The Blue-Muslin Sepulchre," which originally appeared in Scribner's. This story, a telling blow of fiction in Dr. Parran's war, describes the tragedy of a respectable family of two frail daughters and their mother who are kept in ignorance by the family doctor of the father's syphilis...
...difference of potential becomes high enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there is little doubt that the concussion of a nearby lightning stroke might suffice to send a comparatively frail glider down out of control or in splinters...
...great speechmaker is frail Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to Britain. But his Independence Day address to the American Society in London rang up at least one bull's-eye to resound through Europe...
...starved German veterans meet a troop of Yankees who trade their canned foods for hat buttons, instruct Soldier Tjaden (Slim Summerville) in the U. S. art of gum-chewing (see cut). In the square of his native Klosterburg, frail Lieutenant Ludwig (Richard Cromwell) is stripped of his insignia by revolutionary ruffians. Romping Willy (Andy Devine) disperses the gang with an apple which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking...
...undismayed. Installed in a twelve-room suite for his parents and medical retinue headed by Harvard-trained Dr. Claude Ellis Dorkner of Peiping, Fred B. Snite thus last week sailed for Chicago, hoping for a few more years of life before his unusable muscles and joints become too frail to support his will to live...