Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Manhattan police last week arrested a doctor, a lawyer and several solicitors and "victims" of heart disease, Dr. Wyckoff faced the amazing fact that he had been their unwitting accomplice. Chagrin and mortification are bad medicine for weak hearts, and Dr. Wyckoff's heart was weak...
Next day Preacher Lee was hoarse, weary. In the morning he ploughed along, still in the Old Testament, finally whispered: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." Averaging about 185 words a minute, he had preached 21 hr. 20 min., spoken some 200,000 words. He went to bed, soon arose feeling fit and claiming he had gained a pound. Then he donned a white silk blouse of his own design, which he usually wears only at baptismal services, and posed for photographers...
Three days later in his west side Manhattan hotel, weak from influenza and nervous collapse, aged Critic Henderson stopped writing an essay on Pianist Josef Hofmann, placed a .38 revolver in his mouth and with one bullet completed the ending of an epoch in U. S. letters...
Largely because the French people have never been able to take seriously a politician whose middle name they believe to be Casimir, the disorganized body of Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
Displaying the most disappointing baseball of the year, the erratic Crimson nine returned last night from a four game week-end of three defeats and one victory, slipping to a weak third place in the League standings...