Word: languid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest in an important undergraduate occurrence...
...recalled that Shah Ahmad has been leading a notoriously languid and luxurious existence in Europe for the past two years. For him to evince sufficient interest in Persian affairs even to "vehemently protest" is something of an event...
...Metropolitan opens its history with Adolphe Menjou in "The King on Main Street" an amusing and sophisticated farce on the troubles of Kings and things in general. Menjou lifts a supercilious eyebrow, shrugs a careless shoulder, and winks a languid eye with all the nonchalance generally associated with Kings. His affair with the Swedishly attractive Gretta Nisson has all the clever subtlety that made "The Marriage Circle" popular not so very long ago. Menjou's gallant courtesy in the latter part of the picture comes as near to wistful romance as a King very well can. So there...
Hawkes, paired with Miss Kathleen McKane of England, defeated Richards and Miss E. H. Harvey of England for the mixed doubles championship in a languid exhibition match...
...Americans grinned, thought of the parades of the Veiled Prophets (see Page 25) which they had often witnessed in the U. S. That sort of thing was admirable for Elks, Moose, Kiwanis, Realtors and the like, but, after all, it was not polo. The game began. The Indians, with languid ease, swamped the Americans...