Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poison"? Or, better yet, "he was found dead"? There are some interesting statistics on the relation of suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter a weak-willed person from suicide. Specific mention of "a bathroom germicide" warns housekeepers to keep their household poisons in well-locked cupboards...
Coach E. A. Wachter pointed out after the game that the forwards are the weak points in the team. He also stated that size, speed, and erratic performance were the elements to be considered in the stiff practice sessions to be held next week...
...thirty days make possible a further revision of the Constitution. Whatever theoretical significance this sixth clause once may have possessed, it is now quite opposed to the spirit of the University and to that of the Council itself; and the possibility of a successful practical application of it, is weak...
...Ruiz the usurper and restores the mountain girl to the arms of her inamorata. Immediate marriage is in prospect as the projection machine stops buzzing. As a rule, the important thing in a Fairbanks picture is not the story or the settings which are, in this one, fairly weak and excellent respectively. The important thing is the stocky mercurial fellow who rides and jumps and fights (in this case using the South-American "bolas") with such irresistible nonchalance. In The Gaucho the rule holds; but Lupe Velez as "the mountain girl" steals some of her idol's honors...
...supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined not by a historian but by a novelist. Author Kostolanyi, a Hungarian who writes in German, well translated by Clifton P. Fadiman, makes him a weak man, a pathetic youth unable to learn how to live, "a bad poet and a bad ruler." Whether this is what Nero was in truth, no man can say. But his character, so presented, has the truth of fiction, the illusion of reality. The book reaches for the atmosphere...