Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urged His Majesty to appoint a Liberal cabinet " said Senor Francisco Cambo, the great Catalonian leader. "But, 'Personally,' I said, 'I could not take the Prime Ministry until next July. My health is bad now and my throat is weak. I must take care of myself,' I said...
...bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week he dropped his feud with Col. Goldschmidt long enough to blast the Hardiman horse as a "fiddle-headed, peacocky, weak-necked, flat-sided, long-backed, straight-shouldered, herring-gutted useless beast...
Goya came at a time when the spirit of revolt stirred all Europe, and his own country, Spain, ruled over by a weak monarch, Charles IV, was the prey of stronger nations. Goya saw the follies, the weaknesses, and the misdemeanors of the people and the court, and in his Caprices and Proverbs, he denounced them in the most scathing manner. Napoleon's ambition to add Spain to his list of conquered nations, resulted in years of fighting accompanied by starvation, mutilation, and all the horrors of war. These hideous scenes accompanying Spain's struggle for independence, were translated...
...other picture on the bill is "Stampede" which happens to be an interesting photograph of jungle life. The picture is silent, although a weak musical score has been added. It has appeared in this vicinity before but in spite of its slight age, is quite worth seeing. The continuity of a plot is worked out with surprising effectiveness and the atmosphere of "darkest Africa" is quite skillfully created. Compared with the opus of Mr. Shaw, it would seem that there is something in the primitivistic movement in spite of Mr. Babbitt...
...maker in eastern cities.* It is still maintained by experts, and borne out in college wrestling, that when wrestlers are sincere they immediately fall to the mat and lie prone, grunting, until one succumbs from fatigue. No matter what can be said for its spirit, such sincerity is exceedingly weak as entertainment...