Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount, Cecil: "My Lords, it would be a very weak woman who could not withstand the physical demands upon members of the upped House...
...there is one weak spot it is concerned with comedy. James Barton, Ray Dooley, and Andrew Toombes have a few magnificently excruciating moments and far too few. Mr. Barton's dancing again proves that he has no rival for laughter below the knees. Greta Nissen, lured back from the movies, does a neat pantomime. The chorus is traditionally comely. In fact nearly everything about the show is excellent, except its massive length and breadth. Perhaps banting would help...
...play in which a man carried on sexually with the madam of a bordello, to the delight of the half dozen fancy-women residents. (Weak Sisters...
...inning game, 3 to 2. The game though slow, was interesting throughout, and the Crimson outfit, both in the outfield and in the inner defenses, played the same sterling, wide-awake ball that brought it victory over the Tigers in the first Big Three series. The hitting was weak throughout. Coach Mitchell's charges collected only four hits off the southpaw offerings of Quill. The Brown hurler was the second left-hander to face the Harvard batters this season, the other having been Woodruff, the Amherst captain, and though the team finally came off victor, the game was in doubt...
...Quill in the pinches as the 13 Harvard men left on base will testify. He showed signs of weakening in the ninth, however, and was removed in favor of Danzell, ace boxman for the Bruins. In the first game of the Harvard-Brown series, Danzell showed himself weak in fielding bunts, and it was by this method that the home club eked out a win the tenth stanza...