Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their month-long Quadrennial Conference, Methodists meeting in Kansas City decided who should succeed the retiring Bishop of New York, Luther Barton Wilson, who is aged and somewhat infirm. Bishop Francis John McConnell, hitherto of Pittsburgh, was the man they chose...
...start, two good polo ponies were given to the stables by Herbert Lloyd '30. With Major-General Brown's permission, two of the infirm horses have been removed to make place for Lloyd's ponies...
...very happy James Smithson of England sat down to write his will. He had half a million dollars but only a nephew to enjoy them. He was 61 and infirm. His father, the Duke of Northumberland, had never married his mother, a Tudor lady. He had spent his life less among men than in the pursuit of knowledge- mixing chemicals, examining minerals, pondering the earth's origin, improving oil lamps. He had never been in the U. S. but it occurred to him that in such a young country on such a rich continent at such an epochal moment...
...John Goff, 83, the juvenile member howbeit the most infirm, interrupted his indignant thoughts, by retorting through his white moustaches and militant beard: "Yes, and the whole bunch of us may be alive and kicking around for years. We'd better trust to luck and see how the weather is." And he jedked forward suddenly, impatient with his greyhaired unsoldierlike companions...
...best remembered for two things: vigorous versatility and a magnificent English prose style. The Cruise of the Nona brings both into constant play. And of the two, the latter-as Author Belloc would agree if his humility matches his fervor- is the more important. Man being but an infirm creature, his convictions matter little, however brilliant and penetrating. But to couch convictions in beautiful words, to elaborate them faithfully beyond the perversive structures of Anglo-Saxon terseness, that is art, that is service...