Word: frailing
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...shall be back in time for dinner," vigorous Mrs. Roosevelt told frail Ambassador Bingham before she left the Embassy...
...Salle de Glace, it was apparent that the full tide of democracy had done its work. The rising sea had swirled round the thrones, and floated the governments of the people into the seats of the mighty. In Russia, Austria, Germany, "the king" and "the empire" became frail words which foolish men scrawled up on walls or sidewalks late at night. Handsome gentlemen whose families had sketched the map of Europe for centuries moved off into quiet watering places to await, beneath the trees, a call which has not come...
...Senate's heart, if not its votes, was with the onetime Secretary of the Treasury as he came on the floor, frail and fatigued. He admitted that he was worn out and needed...
...antique section of the show there were neither settings nor costumes of the important commedia dell' arte. Most important of all there were no examples of the whole school of late 19th Century realism that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning forests and over real waterfalls, in which locomotives and galloping horses cluttered the stage. Nor was there any exhibit to remind spectators of the painfully accurate productions of the late David Belasco. The entire modern school of stage design stems from a reaction against the fustiness...
...signed a contract to write for Hollywood. That everyone knows this except herself sends her into a fit of rage. When the Boy comes demurely in she is auctioning him off to her covetous lady friends: Here's property for sale, A little worn and frail, But definitely male. Full of shame, the Boy rushes away. Poignantly aware at last of her own love and overcome with remorse, the Woman seeks him out, begs forgiveness. He is stony with hate: That is rather a waste of your time, And I've an appointment at nine...