Word: frailing
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...Franz Liszt's story begins in 1811 on the plains of Hungary. His father, superintendent of a noble's estate, sees a frustrated dream realized when the frail six-year-old plays from memory, with never a lesson, an entire lengthy concerto. The child is taught at home, overworks to the verge of death but survives to take his virtuosity, the marvel of that countryside, to Vienna. Beethoven, old, deaf, impoverished, whose portrait presides over the Liszt piano at home, consecrates the spindly little acolyte with a kiss...
Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge...
...dancers, strung together on a thread of a plot, can fill an evening very happily. If the plot is stretched to an extreme fineness, almost all individuality removed from the music, and the good voice or two done away with, very little seems to remain. Yet on such a frail basis is built "Judy", which came to the Hollis Monday night, en route for New York, and a thoroughly entertaining evening it affords...
Practicabilities. The-fastest liner in the world is the 30,704-ton Mauretania with a superlative speed of but 27 knots. Only frail, slender destroyers attain the proposed velocity of Signer Mussolini's liners, already christened by rumor the Duce and the Rex. Allegedly an Italian inventor has conceived the idea of supplementing the stern propellers with additional propulsive apparatus to be placed along the sides of the new ships. Reputedly Signor Mussolini is ready to sacrifice all cargo space to engines, subsidize the ships, and use them only for express passenger and mail service. At such a cost...
Bashful charwomen hid their worn shoes beneath modest skirts, balanced frail teacups on large red hands...