Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer in order to save themselves. They succeed and give him a mock trial, but before they can kill him the police rush in and the picture ends on a weak note...
...Crimson showed up well in its defensive work against Providence College, but the offense was visibly weak. To improve the scoring, the five has been drilling its revolving offensive tactics yesterday and Monday...
...territory," a simple thing it seemed, to promise, since the nations of Europe had all vowed to preserve forever Belgian independence and territorial integrity. But nine years later a madman in a crooked street fired a shot which found its mark. The Chancellor of Imperial Germany, a gentle, weak, and honest man, explained to the Reichstag that the nation had her back to the wall and could think of only one thing--how to back her way through. The German General Staff had long planned where to hack and the tearing of a scrap of paper resounded in every country...
Moscow suddenly realized last week that its prime funny magazine, the Crocodile, had not been seen for a fortnight. Nobody was greatly surprised. But the Crocodile had not been suppressed. Fact was its editors had laughed themselves weak, sick and hysterical, over a joke they had not even printed...
Victims: 1) A young lady whose three weeks in Paris have made her forget how to speak English. 2) A woman too intelligent not to know she is being made a fool of by her lover and too weak to do anything about it but talk. 3) A nervous bride who wrangles with her mate over nothing on the honeymoon train. 4) A snob who preens herself on her willingness to be nice to colored people. 5) An opportunist who takes advantage of a drunken proposal of marriage. 6) An aging actress sodden with drink and self-pity...