Word: languidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amateur competition at least until the 1936 Olympic Games. Over her brown, bobbed hair she wears only one tight cap, insists that it must have no chinstrap. Built like Helene Madison (5 ft. 10 in., 145 lb.) she swims the same way, with an extraordinary glide between long and languid-looking strokes. This is partly due to the fact that McKean and Madison had the same coach ? Ray Daughters of Seattle's Washington A. C., who uses an outboard motor to churn up the tank in which his pupils practice, advises them to eat raw vegetables and milk...
...desert gas-station is sharper and more honest than most one-room melodramas manufactured in Hollywood. Under Mervyn Le Roy's perceptive direction there are vigorous and amusing sequences: the arrival, en route from Reno to the coast, of two nervous, overdressed divorcees with their languid chauffeur (Frank McHugh ) ; an itinerant bankrobber's bashful greeting to a brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face...
...very clear idea of what his family's reaction will be. In the course of a prolonged honeymoon, she acquires culture, fashionable boredom, a suspicion that her husband is more stupid than she thought at first. He enjoys being sponged on by his friends, particularly approves of a languid professional punster named Harold Sigrift (Monroe Owsley). Abby badgers Roderick into going to work for his father's firm. When he retires, humiliated by his incompetence, she scandalizes his parents by leaving him and going to work herself, at her old job. Finally Roderick comes to her with...
Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs in efficiency. An excitable temperament and inability to control his shots held him back. Crawford started to play tennis on his father's 1,200-acre farm at Albury, New South Wales, took it up more seriously when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played...
Like many persons who possess abundant nervous energy, he comports himself, away from tennis courts, in a manner almost painfully lethargic. Vines ambles when he walks. His frame, more knobby at the knees and elbows than an athlete's should be, presents an awkward aspect. Languid even in responding to a new environment. Vines maintained his habit of retiring and rising early last week. In Paris, he investigated neither the Louvre nor the Folies Bergere. In London, he ordered new and wider trousers which fit him better than his old ones...