Word: languid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall these symptoms disappear only to come back the following spring with increased intensity. As the disease progresses the sick one becomes dried and parched like a mummy, with bones protruding at macabre angles. Muscles waste, body motions become slow and languid...
...heir was not "Georgie" but "Eddy." At Cambridge this languid and effeminate prince was called by his fellow undergraduates "Collar and Cuffs" (the present Prince of Wales was "Pragger Wagger" at Oxford. An ejaculation which "Collar and Cuffs" could be depended on to utter in almost any circumstances was "Really!" in a particularly flat drawl. Nevertheless he, the Duke of Clarence, was definitely the favorite child of his proud mother, later Queen Alexandra. Possibly apocryphal but thoroughly typical is the following tale...
Last week a dark, slightly exhausted looking young Oxonian with a long nose was loudly cheered when the Oxford University Dramatic Society, of which he is president, staged his production of Macbeth. Oxford's incomparably languid esthetes gathered afterward and drawled their appreciation far into the night-they praised the producer for the simplicity and emotion he had achieved, for his blending of hues, his startling evocation of Banquo's ghost. They devised precious phrases to explain his innuendos...
...pictures which hung last week on the walls of the Chambrun gallery, against the imagined landscape of all Perdriat's paintings there appeared the figures of languid, self-contained and luxurious girls. Most were portraits of Perdriat or her Norwegian friend; a few were groups; one was a scene from some placid and improbable bawdy house, in which five harlots were drinking and playing cards beneath a cloud of afternoon...