Word: decrepits
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...Lillian includes bits of description worthy Homer at his blindest--to wit. "The pipe was a decrepit article, smudged duskily and he cherished it like the family jewels," and this almost transcendental athletic episode. "The second quarter saw the ball see-saw in the center of the field with both sides striving savagely but vainly to advance it. . . . At a nod from the coach, Bobbie, his face beaming, pranced on to the gridiron." Then this domestic touch to add antithesis or something which deserves a paragraph...
...Baltimore Sun. Mr. Morley described how he had seen a big U. S.-built locomotive, "camouflaged and armored," come steaming into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were two dirty and smallpox-pitted soldiers of Super-Tuchun Feng lolling in the single doorway...
...same with Clémenceau. The newspapers speak of him as old and decrepit. . . . On the contrary, in my opinion, he is the one man alive today who is capable of handling the big job of Dictator of France...
...hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...
...Professor", writing in the current Atlantic Monthly, has arisen to justify the younger generation. He admits that he is sufficiently decrepit to be classed with maiden aunts, dry league reformers, and the bald-headed club, and yet he does not think his generation was infinitely superior in its youth to the present crop of earth-encumberers. It is, indeed, fortunate that he did not reveal his name, for if he had, a delegation of the middle aged would have tried and executed him of heresy long before...