Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company has no weak points and all the characters help in maintaining the frothy spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give...
Thus there grew to be five factors in the eastern railroad situation. Rules require that they or any other group take weak railroads into their systems that compete in their business, that they avoid injuring each other's business, above all that they serve the public equitably. The Interstate Commerce Commission is their moderator, referee, judge...
...score, ringing up a total of 22 points by the end of the first period, while the Middlebury outfit having little difficulty in scoring, once it got the ball, shot a total of 21. Throughout the game, Harvard's play was characterized by a strong driving attack, and a weak, unorganized defense...
...week (Wilson's Birthday, Dec. 28), eulogized the War President, made no award of Foundation funds for distinguished 1928 achievement in "meritorious service to democracy, public welfare, liberal thoughts, or peace through justice." Wilsonians found no outstanding merit in the Kellogg-Briand peace plan, which they termed "a weak thing . . . timid imitation . . . mere shadow of Wilson's great conception...
Marie. Though she had no part in the ceremony, her motherly and grandmotherly heart could not be otherwise than quickening and aglow. The Speech from the Throne (of her six-year-old grandson King Mihai) was about to be read by Prince Nicholas of Rumania (her slightly weak-chinned 25-year-old son), thus opening the first freely-elected Parliament in the history of the Kingdom...