Word: spinelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indifference has made of us a spineless lot of dilettantes. But may be I'm merely an old grad harking back to the "good old days!" W. D. Richmond...
...Long is right?like a fox. He is going at the wrong end of this thing. We should go to the fountain head?that spineless cactus at the head of the Government in Washington. Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party have brought you here today?...
...sash-weight? The tabloids, who followed Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder until (and after) the current shot through them in Sing Sing's death house, explained the case as best they could: Ruth was "a dangerous woman," highly sexed, adamant in her purpose. Judd Gray was a spineless wretch whose infatuation was almost his excuse. The press paid little attention to the victim...
Actually there is little likelihood that the Vatican will ever beatify indomitable Zita's husband. Kaiser Karl was a devout Catholic, led a respectable life, was conscientious as an army officer. His fault was that, flaccid and morally spineless to a degree, he was trusted from one moment to the next by no one, from his great- uncle Franz Josef I to his royal "cousin" Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The two years (1916-18) in which he wore the slightly age-battered crown of St. Stephen were a succession of backings and fillings and unfulfilled political pledges...