Word: inertness
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...finish, Author Bentley has somehow tied all her plot strings together and worked out a pro-virtue ending. Old England, the book hints, will continue to bounce along. Unfortunately, Quorum itself has little bounce. Except for the old-school labor leader, Author Bentley's characters are inert symbols of her social scheme, with neither individuality nor idiosyncrasy. Transparently plotted and written in muttony English, Quorum is the sort of novel that may give more kick to a rummaging social historian of the future than to today's American...
...seem to be contradictory. He is more of an individualist than soldiers of other nations, and at the same time he is far more conscious of, and dependent on, teamwork. He fights as he lives, a part of a vast, complicated machine-but a thinking, deciding part, not an inert...
...years an unvarying stream of 3,000,000 people passed annually by his cage. He was seldom sick, almost never troublesome. But early this month Keeper Robinson noted that Bushman seemed listless. One day, a fortnight ago, the big gorilla toppled over and lay sprawled and inert on the floor...
Digitalis & Cream. Veterinarians, none of whom dared enter his cage, diagnosed his trouble as arthritis, heart disease and old age. Though Bushman managed to pull himself feebly up to his perch after hours of lying inert, they thought he was dying. The Chicago newspapers sent reporters hurrying out to stand a death watch. When Bushman, who was refusing to eat, took a pint of cream containing a stimulant, the Chicago Tribune ran a black, eight-column Page One bannerline: BUSHMAN GIVEN DIGITALIS. The Tribune could have done no more for a President-at least for a Democratic President...
...which Toomey said was "the most monstrous bird I've ever seen," was discovered clutching the inert body of the pigeon in its talons not far from the Chinese Memorial...