Word: languid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Percy Hammond: "MoonFlower is a bit languid and discursive. It prefers loquacity to action . . . Mr. Blackmer's passions are . . . less dumb than dumbbell...
Then the fun begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...
...Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid yawn before the battle-cry! F. N. ARVIN...
This is a lively issue of the Advocate. We come to it indifferent, skeptical, almost--languid; we leave it with a sense of nervous quickening and clarity...