Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surely far better to allow the productive forces of capital and credit to create wealth and abundance and then, by corrective taxation of profits, meet the needs of the weak and poor! Instead, the Washington Administration has waged so ruthless a war on private enterprise that the United States, with none of the perils and burdens of Europe upon it, is actually at the present moment leading the world back into the trough of depression...
...religious cultsters, practicing esoteric arts for the weak in spirit and confused in mind, have their quota of quacks and racketeers, their full share of psychotics. Last week in Chicago an egregious religionist, who in his time had attracted the notice of both police and psychiatrists, was discovered by the Chicago Times (tabloid) to be "doing business at the same old stand." He was Giuseppe Maria Abbate, 51, onetime convict, onetime maniac, known to his 100-odd present followers as the "Celestial Messenger...
...booksellers' collection of 200 volumes contained many books of only immediate interest, a few which had very little of that. Nor did its seven detective stories seem destined to be the nucleus of a permanent collection. The fiction, which looked weak in comparison with the biography and works of history, included Gone With the Wind and Of Time and the River, but it also numbered such minor works of doubtful durability as Fannie Hurst's We Are Ten and Robert Nathan's Enchanted Voyage. But with works of the stature of Douglas Southall Freeman...
...Chester Towers, has altered the storytelling, removed the bite, like the gentlemen who dramatized Pride and Prejudice, Madame Bovary. Trollope's Barchester Towers smacks appreciative lips over the pettiness of an English cathedral town, controlled by Mrs. Proudie, a mean woman and a real woman, wife of its weak-minded bishop...
...Pepita she now offers the two latest portraits of her "too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy" family. The first is of her gypsy grandmother Pepita Duran y Ortega; the second of her mother, who died last year at 73. Tall, Andalusian Pepita was descended from a hot-blooded family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made...