Word: tottering
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Indomitable Fred Snite Jr., U. S. Invalid No. 1, who traveled in his iron lung from China to the U. S., from the U. S. to France and back, who married and is now an expectant father, was reported taking a short totter each day round his room...
...head is revolving," says Bishop Kinsolving, Heigh-ho, we'll blow the man down. "I'll drink till I totter," says Rt. Rev. Potter. . . . "To hell with white ribbons," says good Cardinal Gibbons...
...Wildwood, N. J. home while her husband Henry, 84, took care of her. Last week Henry, ill himself, lay down beside her, died. Desperately, Mary Kincaid tried to raise her husky voice in a cry for help, lay there helpless for two days, finally summoned strength enough to rise, totter to the window, beckon in a passerby...
...fits him as ill as the style Athlete would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only...
...impossible to resolve this dilemma. First of all, the fundamental fact must be recognized that since 1931 when the League of Nations system first began to totter, a race for strategic advantage has been under way, with Italy, Germany, and Japan in the van, and the democracies, including the United States, in full and ignominious retreat. Munich was merely the climax. In such a world as has resulted, force is the nominating factor, and it is important that the superior force be in the right hands...