Word: spineless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silver Cord which it somewhat resembles in point of view if not in construction. But where The Silver Cord impeached only one miserable old lady for her exaggerated interest in her sons. Another Language shows the more complicated problems that can arise when an entire family of spineless offspring falls under the ugly domination of a stupid, whining matriarch. With two or three exceptions, old Mrs. Hallam (Louise Closser Hale), her sons and her daughters-in-law are as genuinely disagreeable a tribe as the cinema has ever dared exhibit to its audiences. Victor Hallam (Robert Montgomery) and his pretty...
...Some may elect to join the spineless drift toward impending doom. Most, however, will choose, to struggle, trusting that a valiant resistance may perchance postpone somewhat the evil day, and perhaps soften its disasters, and at least guarantee to themselves the self respect of fighting against fate...
...their views. Bishop Scarlett defended his intercommunion service, pointing out that Jesus Christ was no sectarian. Leader of the opposing side was another Episcopal Johnson-Colorado's popular, high-church Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, called ''The Tame Lion." Bishop Johnson growled about jellyfish and other spineless creatures who make compromises, start conflicts. Let the Church keep the bars up and avoid trouble. Intercommunion would ''make the Episcopal household of faith a cafeteria." Said he: "If such practices are persisted in, I should feel it my duty as a bishop to banish and drive away from...
...erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair. Caterina remained so businesslike, not to say calculating, that Mr. Belfry was not nearly so great a sinner as he would have liked to be. But he had enough Anglo-Saxon marrow to keep from going completely spineless, and finally took himself back to Cambridge and a well-ordered life...
...from the Long Island Railroad in 1914 when Great Eastern's chairman found no "man in England capable of extricating us." Having solved Britain's complex Wartime train problems he was picked in 1922 for president & board chairman of Canadian National to save it from becoming "a spineless nuisance with nobody to kick and no soul to own." He turned a deficit into a surplus, resigned last year to give Depression politicians "a free hand...