Word: languid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Walter was the man chosen as most worthy to relieve Toscanini, no audience this season has waited with more curiosity to read the criticisms in next day's papers. How would the big German please Critic Lawrence Gilman, sitting languid and aloof on the left side of the house? How would spare, dry William James Henderson react to him? Or Olin Downes, sitting a few rows behind Henderson? Gilman went to the Herald Tribune office, wrote poetically of the program's "deathless" beauty, praised Walter as "a conductor of secure and confident musicianship, of rare artistic integrity, of refreshing...
What sends shivers up an Indian potentate's languid spine is the nightmare that Britain may some day confiscate his realm. Last week to the Emir of Khairpur came a messenger with worst tidings...
...Purcell-Jones, apparently another member of Britain's languid gentry, contributed a roomful of slightly improper drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...
...have a "nervous deafness." Dr. Emil Amberg of Detroit noted that this "nervous deafness" is "in the upper ranks of society much more frequently in females than in males. The subjects of it are generally of a sallow complexion, of a phlegmatic disposition, with a thin, cold skin and languid circulation...
Barnes's "Menace." Julius Howland Barnes, board chairman of the Chamber (TIME, May 5), led off the attack on the Farm Board by denouncing its market activities as "a menace," declared its damage to private concerns "irreparable." Almost instantly the Chamber's meeting, generally a languid routine affair, was vitalized into an uproar of indignation at the spectre of Government-in-Business. The usual courtesies of public address were put aside as speaker after speaker flayed the Board. For once plain speaking became the rule...