Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighty-three years old is President Paul, and his arches are too weak for many festivities. Two days more of standing around listening to Mayors and Männerchor was a terrifying prospect, but the day at Coblenz passed as smoothly as the first part of the trip. The von Hindenburgs landed at Deutsches Eck, "German Corner," the little promontory of land where the Moselle flows into the Rhine, sacred to sentimentalists as the "Heart of Germany," listened to singing schoolchildren, attended a municipal banquet...
...summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago, was not able to see the start but felt well enough to give out to the press the usual expressions of his optimistic sportsmanship...
...been on the stage and in pictures for 44 years. She was a famed comedian 25 years ago. Mack Sennett took her to Hollywood in 1914 to play in Chaplin comedies. She was a hit in Tittle's Punctured Romance, but for several years after that played in weak parts and slowly lost her reputation. Used to earning $2,500 a week, she was glad to take $150 for bit parts. Last spring her acting as a gin-soaked derelict in Anna Christie with Greta Garbo brought her international fame in a few weeks. Abroad on a holiday...
...That alcoholic spirits (primary cocktail ingredients) are not beverages but weak and pleasant poisons...
Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Customs, Coast Guard & Prohibition last week scoffed at these accusations, called Major Campbell "a weak character...