Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master Courtney was positive that he could open the chests. Declared he: "There isn't a lock made that hasn't its weak point." In his Manhattan shop, whose basement is the Grand Lodge Room of his A. A. M. L., he has a million keys, thousands of locks, a model airplane built entirely of lock parts and keys. The airplane's radio and engine function. Master Courtney declares that he can fit a key to any motor car if he has the manufacturer's number and if he is sure that the applicant...
...word went out that two of the three remaining Americans were soggily losing, that only Mrs. Leona Cheney, small & blonde from Los Angeles, was winning her match. This news did not rattle Chicago's Virginia Van Wie, 22, who first took up golf to cure a weak back. She has an impeccable style but her specialty of pitching dead to the flag had not been working on Wentworth's sloping greens. She braced herself, squared her match on the 15th, won the next two holes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill, 40, of Kansas City was also a game...
...Small, weak but exceedingly loud bombs were hurled at the Bank of Japan, the Mitsubishi Bank, the residence of Emperor Hirohito's Grand Chamberlain Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the Central Police Station opposite the Cherry Village Gate of the Imperial Palace. At the gate a Japanese reporter fell with a bullet in his foot. Other bombs were thrown at the residence of Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and a con stant adviser to young Emperor Hirohito...
...sympathy accorded the Massie group after they had taken justice into their own hands. The same disregard for law has continued unabated. And now the only means left to demonstrate the power of that law,--the strict imposition of sentence,--has been cast aside because a governor was too weak to face the angry censure which impartiality would incur...
...stripped naked by her. ... It eats into the heart, it reduces the brain to a sort of pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon watches a cancan dance, fascinated, repulsed, wavering. His return a day later results in his catching syphilis. He would drown himself, but he is too weak to leap overboard. The end comes when the captain himself, sympathetic, smothers him in his great coat...