Word: languidly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...even in so staid and decorous an organization as the book club of any highly respectable New England town, the dignified Reviews and seemly humourous publications that make their prim march from house to house excite in most members of the club, would they own the truth, but very languid interest when at the earliest they arrive at least six weeks after the time of their first bow to the world. True, the greater part of the cargoes of most of these vessels, like those of the shingle boats that children freight for journeys down a brook, may well...
...history of the Council has been an unbroken record of inactivity and wasted opportunities. Starting with a wonderful chance to become of prime usefulness to the College, its energy, never very great, gradually decreased. The languid dissolution last week was the logical result...