Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...domestic and vocational, are caused by a hulking railroad sheik. Punished once for snatching kisses, this sheik chooses a stormy night for his revenge. Runaway freight cars endanger the Limited, occupy the signalman, give time for the resheiking of the signalman's brave wife. The wreck is a weak fake, but fighting, business, and minor characters all swell the picture's score...
...Charles H. Frazier, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, an institution where operations are performed which command medical attention and newspaper notoriety. For five hours and forty minutes, Troutman was under the knife; six surgeons and physicians, with their assistants, were in action. The patient was so weak that ether could not be administered; a local anesthetic dulled the pain but not the mind of Troutman, who, throughout the ordeal, exchanged quips and jokes with the surgeons. Once, he laughed. Beyond all expectation, this feat of surgery was successful. Again the doctors of the University Hospital have arrested...
...minority is too weak to defend you, even on the basis of a harmless, but necessary, educational exhibit. It can not now defend itself. The times, and possibly the world and sun also, are out of joint...
...comes after a generally unsatisfactory Spring, and according to well-informed writers, it means that for the rest of the year most of the tire companies must manufacture below the cost of production, and that only a few will manage to break even. The weak condition of the tire industry is due to overbuilding of productive capacities during the War-period, and to severe price-competition since 1920. Until the companies get together on a common and profitable management regarding prices, the business seems likely to continue in its present unsatisfactory condition...
...sphere he covets, he shoots himself where the brain is assumed to be. His body is brought in on a stretcher by the police-as an unexpected appetizer to a dinner party. Thus is the play put out of its misery. The Telegram and Evening Mail: "A weak, illogical concoction, marred by much gushing sentimentality." Alexander Woollcott: "An innocent, artless drama . . . invested with the flavor of private theatricals." New York Evening Post: "Miss Bertha Broad's performance of the heroine was fairly competent, but in no way remarkable." The New York Times: "Not sufficiently well characterized and well written...