Word: frailing
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Between Gandhi's will and that of the Viceroy the final clash had come. Like a Greek tragedy the action moved inexorably toward the climax. A frail little bag of bones had decided he would drink only fruit juice for three weeks, and the whole British Empire quivered. A world that uses and more than half believes in force watched the struggle with divided sympathies and a strange sense of shame...
Daredeviltry and Research. Eddie Allen, 47, looked like no Hollywood conception of a test pilot. He was modest to the point of shyness. Frail as a column of smoke, he never weighed more than 135. The few straggly strands of hair on top of his bald pate made him look like a tweedy cupid. His nose was fused into his face when he spun to earth more than 20 years ago in young Fred Harvey's white Curtiss Jenny, but many years later a plastic surgeon built him a creditable nose...
Just before the curtain rose on last week's performance of Tannhäuser at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, a wheel chair was carefully pushed up to the wings. From it, with great gentleness, a husky stagehand and a medieval huntsman lifted the frail body of a bravely smiling diva, deposited her tenderly on the cushions of a shell-backed fairy-tale divan. Amid a crowd of pirouetting nymphs and satyrs the reclining diva, her blond hair sparkling with stage diamonds, was slowly wheeled on the stage...
Maria Jackson is frail and wrinkly now, and at 80 a great-grandmother. She lives in the family homestead on the fringes of Portland's business section with a cook, a companion, a chauffeur, a Pekingese named Charlie...
...attempt at cosmic symbolisms. It displays some clever touches. It provides some amusing moments, chiefly at the expense of the gabbling, skeptical townspeople (though their skepticism can hardly be termed extreme). It enables Cinemactor Stuart Erwin to perform, man and tree, very likably. But the play, with its single frail idea, lacks movement and variety. Critic Sir Leslie Stephen once said that certain things are interesting only because they actually happened. That applies, on the whole, to men turning into trees...