Word: frailing
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...undramatic fashion. If this and other accounts are slightly deficient in humor, they are nevertheless written without zeal. Perhaps Professor Palmer wholly appreciates the fate of those undergraduates of 30 years ago who year in, year out would listen to an empiricist like James tear down the frail web of idealism wrought by Royce or Palmer himself, only to witness the process reversed when they returned to the idealists...
Little is known of Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause...
...plump, broadfaced hausfrau sat quietly in the drawing room of the S. S. Belgenland as it lay in New York harbor last week. Although her eyes were laughing, she seldom glanced away from the frail-looking man with the tousled white hair and big, gentle brown eyes who sat beside her. The room was full of cameras, newsgatherers with vast questions on their tongues...
...interpreter turned to the frail-looking man, repeated the question in German...
...production is that spectators get a chance to see Norma Terris (Show Boat) with her hair down. As Good As New. Being an exceptionally good mummer, Otto Kruger is always capable of a first-rate performance no matter how weak the show is-and he has performed in some frail attractions (Nobody's Money, Will Shakespeare, The Long Road). As Tom Banning, the philandering plutocrat in As Good As New, Mr. Kruger again demonstrates that it is hard to smother a good actor beneath a poor script. He is surprised in the apartment of his paramour. As a protest...