Word: frailness
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...plot is rather frail as to be expected in light farce, but such is its success that one never notices. The irrepressible Fernandel plays a harrassed husband who feels that his real calling is women's fashions. One of his extra-curricular conquests leaves him the controlling interest in a fashion house that is on the skids, and amidst great swish and swirl our hero conquers the world of fashion. And with the usual amorous byplay, all comes out well...
Shelvey's mother was less conciliatory. "Larry never hurt anyone," she said. "He was so small and frail. And he wanted to go to Princeton. Why did they do it? Just tell me that. Why did they...
BOXING'S Archie Moore, being occupied with somewhat more mundane things, probably never had the pleasure of meeting Cecil, the duckbilled platypus. But this week they share in common the pages of TIME; Cecil because, frail and elderly (12), he died; Archie, considerably older, because he fought well and won. In a week filled with news of high moment and striking impact, both Archie and Cecil fought their way into TIME's crowded pages because their stories bore the trademark of the writer who searched his mind and found the telling phrase. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Liebestod, and SPORT...
...democracy backward so quickly. Democracy came to modern Turkey during the long, enlightened dictatorship of Kemal Ataturk (1923-38); his chosen successor, Ismet Inonu, was beaten at the polls in 1950, and obeying the popular mandate, turned over power to the Democrats. Last week Republican Inonu, a frail but forthright 72, waved Turkey's bill of rights before the assembly and charged that the Menderes government had trampled on freedom, suppressed the press, corrupted the courts and undermined justice. And with evident regret Fuat Koprulu, once Menderes' Foreign Minister, abruptly resigned from the Democratic Party, which...
...pocket-size (38 sq. mi.) republic that perches on the Apennines 60 miles east of Florence in north central Italy. But last week an unlikely rebel had the people talking angrily about throwing out the Reds once and for all. The issue: progressive education. The rebel: Mother Veronica, the frail, 74-year-old abbess of the Convent of St. Clare, who runs a top-notch traditionalist school for about 90 of San Marino's girls...