Word: frailing
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...object, is to have some near great poet commemorate its existence in deathless verse. At once tables are erected, little fences constructed, and the lives of prominent visitors made tedious with tours of inspection, personally conducted by a legal and enthusiastic peasantry. Unfortunately; however, human nature is of so frail a cast that when a poet has exercised his skill on behalf of some deserving object. Impostures are promptly brought into being by envious souls yearning for similar redirected glory, who also erect tablets, construct fences, and annoy automobilists...
Philip Snowden, the "ascetic, intellectual type of burning enthusiast," "a frail figure of a man who walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...
...from a brutal father, and then clutches at the girl. He forces her to marry him, through weakness and pity, and when she tries to elope with the sculptor she loves, the professor chains her to himself with the intangible but unbreakable bonds of gratitude. The strength of the frail proves so crushing that suicide alone can free the girl. Henry Herbert as the professor gave an insinuating study of the iron hand in the velvet glove. Helen Weir almost had the girl's role at her finger tips...
...piece de resistance for the critics was Bellows' Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
...antithesis of the frail litterateur. He is credited with prodigious feats of strength in dislodging, barehanded, slabs of paving stone from the treasured Harkness quadrangle in a nocturnal rampage during his college course. After college, he was connected with The New York World and with TIME, the weekly newsmagazine. His book is not autobiographical...