Word: frailest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Improving health has put pink into the thin, sallow cheeks of Squire Robert Worth Bingham, the Kentucky publisher (Louisville Courier-Journal) who, when first appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, seemed the frailest of frail reeds on whom President Roosevelt had elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely...
Neither cheerful nor proud was Papa Ovila Dionne last week at his frontier farmhouse near Callander, Ont. as his five little daughters went into a third recordbreaking week of life, to the marvel of the medical profession throughout the world. Marie, the frailest, upon whom the others had rolled when they were all in the one butcher's basket, was the first one to be placed in an incubator all to herself. Five days later each of the other four had her private quarters and a better chance for life. Three trained nurses were...