Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself with right considered his--greatest triumph. In fact were it only for the magnificent and terrible character of Cleopatre, a living presentation of the worst form of feminine dignity, the play would be worthy of the close attention and admiration of posterity. Yet there is hardly a weak point in the whole drama, either in the verse or in the deliniation of character...
Rest. Dusk came. As lamps were lighted the Emperor received an ounce of liquid food administered through a tube. He was approaching the last stages of pneumonia, and his lungs have always been weak. At his bedside a physician administered oxygen whenever he seemed sinking. The pulse, constant for some time at 126,* became too fast to count. The respiration mounted to 84;? the Emperor's feet swelled markedly...
...Finally I heard that he was doing very queer things. They seemed to me a sign that his brain was getting weak.... I wrote him a letter, to bring him to his senses. After that I never saw him again, but there was no quarrel. He often sent me presents...
...primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring the slate with curses. Tessa goes with Dodd to a flyblown Brussels hostelry, where her weak heart-valve gives way as she struggles to open a window. She is free; the others live...
Agriculture. "The steady advance in prices of agricultural commodities from the time of the great fall in 1920-21 up to the crop year 1924-25 has contributed to the restoration of agriculture, although there are still weak spots. There was very little change in the situation, considered as a whole, during the crop year 1925-26. The output of the farms was substantially the same as the year before and the average prices of farm products also remained at the same level...