Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no trace of the incongruous about this book, for all that the heroine is (externally) incredibly minute. There is nothing unpleasant or morbid or deformed about Miss M. She is simply the distilled essence of you or me--or any frail other one of "the common size". All the people in these pages are alive. When next I am in Kent I am sure that I shall meet them--all save Miss M. herself who was so lately "called away...
...quarter back. There has been some talk in the press recently with regard to moving Kempton to halfback in order to work Murphy into the backfield; but Jones would scarcely care to put his only two capable quarterbacks in play at the same time, especially since Murphy is rather frail. Moreover "it would mean putting both his drop-kickers in at once, Aldrich being the other reliance in this line. In spite, then, of his excellent exhibition of running, forward passing and drop-kicking in the Carnegie game, Murphy will remain the foremost threat on the Yale sidelines, ready...
...backfield, Kempton is playing far better football, as is natural, under his former Exeter mentor, than he could under Sharpe; Murphy, though a valuable drop-kicker, is too frail to displace Kempton Playing at halfback in the latest scrimmage are Aldrich, who already shapes up as the star of the Yale offense, and French, a reliable back. Webb took Jordan's place at fullback, but the former Exeter back is the favorite to start Saturday's game