Word: laggard
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...bleated a placard appearing broadcast through New York, Long Island, New Jersey. Other newspapers were not laggard. Sweet Dorothy Dix, writing for the New York Evening Post, and syndicated throughout the U. S., described Charlotte Mills, daughter of the dead singer, as "the quintessence of this hard-boiled age, when girls have no old-fashioned reverence for a mother's purity, but, on the contrary, condone mother's frailty and help her out in her little 'affairs...
...Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped him to start a place of his own. It is said that he knew by a customer's bearing what he would like to eat?for a bright eye, crepes Suzette; for a laggard step, Vol au Vent de Volaille à la Reine. Bolshevism, prohibition, induced him to retire. "I will not submit," he said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park Ave. and a candy store on Fifth...
...sold. Now the Interpreter which, according to its profession, "only reaches a thin red line of thinkers scattered throughout the world" appeals for funds to carry on its work. Its editors sigh that "public response . . . has not been all that they had hoped. Appreciation seems ever to be a laggard It claims a circulation of over 10,000, but it confesses to a considerable, if decreasing, deficit each month. It announced that a few men had offered one-third the amount of money to enable it to continue publication. It appealed to its readers for the necessary remainder...
...celebrated his silver anniversary with a weekly which has made Cyrus H. K. Curtis several fortunes in cash. At the same time the Interpreter clutched at the thin red line of thinkers. To one the American public is a gold mine of appreciation; to the other it is a laggard...
...chair who was more genuinely a democrat or held more tenaciously to his faith in democracy than Woodrow Wilson, but no other man ever sat in the President's chair who was so contemptuous of all intellect that was inferior to his own or so impatient with its laggard processes...