Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the problem of obtaining a sufficient number of judges to dispose of cases is the capacity of the judges themselves. This brings forward the question of aged or infirm judges-a subject of delicacy and yet one which requires frank discussion...
...approbation handed down by the country on election day, the signal has been set for full steam ahead and the theories nearest to the hearts of the administration are being rushed to practical completion. Perhaps for the first time in modern history, a nation will see its aged, its infirm and its unemployed transformed from destitute and dangerous drains on the mercies of charity to self-sufficient and responsible citizens. To this end it can only be hoped that the experts on the Social Security board will bend every effort...
Deputies bustled into the Palais-Bour-bon last week for what was sure to be a wild scene, reception by the Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France...
...blood. The old men shouted tall tales of past Ethiopian glories. The chiefs put on their lion-mane collars. The warriors took up their fighting arms, their wives, their pots and the village set out for the capital of the superior chief, leaving behind only the old, infirm and infantile...
...attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...