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Many are the figures with a hand in Krüger's fate: blunt Autocrat Otto Klenk ("Klenk is Klenk and signs himself Klenk"): Jewish Lawyer Geyer, with a frail body and a passion for logic and justice; Hessreiter, rich man by grace of a business of which he is ashamed; Dr. Bichler, blind, surly old peasant, who rules Bavaria from behind the scenes; Communist Kaspar Pröckl, bitter and untidy engineer who serves Reindl and cannot hate him successfully; Johanna Krain, friend of Krüger, who champions him, marries him in prison out of pity; Jacques Tüverlin, artist-spectator...
...trimmer in our party was a 17-year-old girl, whose name was Elvira Kukel. She was a frail, pretty, sympathetic girl, who had the misfortune of being the daughter of Col. Kukel, of the former Imperial Guards...
...little man, frail, prematurely aged and crippled by arthritis, Sir Arthur was quiet, dignified, unhurried, hard to ruffle. The red tape of his job bored him; he knew how to laugh. When, newly appointed Ambassador to Spain, he presented his credentials to King Alfonso, he read his speech before the grandees of Spain, listened to the King's reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard...
...portrait and the epilog to a portrait; it is steeped in a mood of finality which would give it dignity even if it were less thoughtfully written. When George Arliss did it on the stage a few critics ventured with their praise the criticism that he seemed too frail and sharpened a man to represent perfectly that lusty Sylvanus Heythorp who in his extreme old age perpetrated a shady transaction to insure the prosperity of his illegitimate family and who died after an eight-course dinner accompanied by a bottle of champagne, three glasses of port, some vintage brandy...
...Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite alone in a frail machine, every moment fearing that the motor will fail and you will have to face calamity. No, no-never again...