Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan. First they recalled the silent, square-jawed Viscount himself ? direct, almost pugnacious, with the habit of rolling the sleeves of his kimono well above the elbow whenever work was to be done in the privacy of his home. The second personality that the diplomats recalled was the frail, timid-seeming man, who next to Admiral Togo was perhaps the greatest of Japanese naval strategists. He was Admiral Baron Tomasaburo Kato, Premier from 1922 until 1923, an actual son of the house of Kato, whereas Premier Viscount Takaaki Kato was an orphan adopted into the Kato family...
Critics, pleased by her attractive manner, by her knowledge of the stage, were forced to admit that her voice, though not unlovely in quality, is frail, that her vocal technique is frailer, that she was frequently unfaithful to pitch, that she is not up to Metropolitan standard...
...Saint Gudule moaned the grief of the world. Women who had been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors were shut. The funeral...
Some 41 years ago Evangelist Ufford, in the leafy village square of Westwood, Mass., was exhorting the villagers with much gusto yet with some despair, for on the outskirts of the throng he noted many youths and maidens giggling and cutting up. How frail are their ties to the Church, reflected the young Methodist, even as he labored and prayed. They were drifting. . . sinking. . . . Phrases floated across his thoughts, took form. Later, at home, in half an hour he composed his hymn, which has been translated into nearly all major languages. Once in a tour of the world, he dramatically...
...Respighi and the U.S. debut of a certain English nightingale in the third movement. For Respighi disdained any nightingale effect that might be obtained from strings or woodwinds, used a gramophone record made by a real birdToscanini as to make the readings of lesser men seem imitative and frail; and an audience that had jabbered its way into the hall went home stilled and critics went out fumbling for words...