Word: frailing
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...prospect of immediate settlement it rested on two frail hopes, action by the Pennsylvania Government and action by the Federal Government. In Pennsylvania, Governor Pinchot is faced by a legislature which is in good part hostile to him, depriving him of most power except that of persuasion. In Washington, the President has no power but that of persuasion, which he declines to exercise, for most observers are aware that at present persuasion would be futile. In Congress, Democrats made numerous attempts to force the President to act, thinking no doubt that any attempt to do so would bring the wrath...
What was the stature of the man Jesus? How tall was He? How sturdy or frail? Painters and sculptors have clouded over their ignorance by emphasizing His face, putting therein all the passion and pity or suffering within their abilities. His body they have made secondary, usually slim, occasionally even pudgy, sometimes tall, seldom short, according to the current ideas of ascetic beauty...
...Japan. First they recalled the silent, square-jawed Viscount himself ? direct, almost pugnacious, with the habit of rolling the sleeves of his kimono well above the elbow whenever work was to be done in the privacy of his home. The second personality that the diplomats recalled was the frail, timid-seeming man, who next to Admiral Togo was perhaps the greatest of Japanese naval strategists. He was Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier from 1922 until 1923, an actual son of the house of Kato, whereas Premier Viscount Takaaki Kato was an orphan adopted into the Kato family...
Critics, pleased by her attractive manner, by her knowledge of the stage, were forced to admit that her voice, though not unlovely in quality, is frail, that her vocal technique is frailer, that she was frequently unfaithful to pitch, that she is not up to Metropolitan standard...
...Saint Gudule moaned the grief of the world. Women who had been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors were shut. The funeral...