Word: languidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony. They read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. ... A succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation." "That," says James Bryant Conant with quiet firmness, "must not be allowed to happen at Harvard...
...nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King. The extreme difficulty of finding for Britain a future "snappy" Queen among the eligible princesses of Europe is part of the reason why Edward VIII is unmarried...
...They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about 150 lb. of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath...
Dancing blithely in the languid Caribbean night, late-reveling passengers on the Holland-America liner Rotterdam fortnight ago felt a slight shock, were mildly alarmed to learn that the 24,000-ton cruise-ship had gone aground on tiny Morant Cays, 40 miles southeast of Jamaica. Speedily assured there was no danger, most of them joined the rest of the 460 passengers in sleep. Next day, with no other incident than one sprained ankle, they and most of the crew were picked up by nearby ships, taken safely to Kingston...
...Europe's Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...