Word: draggedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these cases, all the blue-book phrases-and pen-point terms of the undergraduate are rendered useless; in fact, he might have slept through all his brain fresh. Neo-platonism, Transcendentalism, and all the other pat lecture-room labels go by the board--to drag them into a psychological test would only prove that he had not "the brains he was born with". Nor is the graduate better served. Experience, practice in practical affairs, greater maturity get him no more than a gentlemanly "satisfactory" when he competes with his children or grandchildren...
...does not out-shadow the rest of the company, as stars are wont to do There is no great chance for art here: it is the whole-heartedness, the vigor, and the liveliness of the whole cast that makes the play so appealing. If the humor seemed to drag in spots, it was only because it needed a responsive audience to echo it and buoy it up. There was plenty of it, spontaneous and without archaism. For settings, which required frequent shift, curtains and flats were used with artistic and appropriate effect, and proved readily adaptable to the varied action...
...endeavoring to make repairs. Occasionally she would get her engines going, steam along a short distance, then stop, when continued hammering indicated further efforts at repairs. Additional depth charges were dropped, resulting in further damage to the doomed sub, which was now resting on the bottom and able to drag herself along only a few yards at a time. The listeners could follow these events as clearly as though they could seen, for every effort that involved a noise of any kind was registered on the ear pieces of the delicate listening instruments. All one night and part...
...must the Artists and Scientists of our faculty admit themselves incompetent to produce any but a course wherein the gentleman after culture must be plunged to suffocation depth "under the surface" of one special, specialized branch of science, there to wallow for a year and to drag down by his incompetence--for who is not incompetent when set to that most hopeless of all tasks, working at something which for him is utterly futile?--to drag down by his incompetence, I say, the few precious students who would else do well because that subject is their special interest and acknowledged...
...Sure. Caviar on a griddle cake with a side of heavy oream." Most people would not have dared ask for this particular kind of flash, knowing the "drag" necessary to get it. Willie realizes the reward for his politeness for the waitress appears with his order...