Word: languidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. It is the story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets out to prove otherwise. Far as possible from a languid Tennessee whittlers' bench are Author Shute and his material, but somehow even in embattled London men go on telling stories...
...with a leisurely breakfast in bed, a review of news and the day's work with Secretary Stephen T. Early, a careful check through New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore newspapers; a look at overnight cables. Often, these days, there are also quick conferences with State Department chiefs. Languid, shrewd Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins often sits in, listening more than talking, unmindful of smoke curling into his eyes from a forgotten cigaret. When the grandchildren are on a visit, one is usually climbing around the bed (Franklin III or Sara...
...controls 95% of the world's diamond production, chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, world's most important diamond mining company. As boss of both ends of Britain's diamond cartel, he always lets his left hand know what his right is doing. When buyers get languid, Sir Ernest's tight little combination turns off the diamond supply like a kitchen tap. The supply: British and Belgian Africa, whose "pipes" (blue clay mines) and alluvial deposits yield 97% of the world's output. The other 3%, including black diamonds, is sifted haphazardly by natives from...
...Robert Taylor. Booted, trench-coated and sporting a dark, hairline mustache (the inspiration of Director Mervyn LeRoy), Cinemactor Taylor is a dashing officer. His continual kissing of Cinemactress Leigh may become a little tiresome to nonparticipants. But one kiss, after which the camera highlights and hangs suspended upon the languid Taylor lips, should go a long way toward rehabilitating Cinemactor Taylon with his fickle feminine fans and re-establishing him as a valuable studio property...
...last week, while a languid Stock Exchange waited for the closing gong of another disappointing day, Big Steel's directors wound up another monthly meeting, went back to their offices. Fourteen minutes after the Stock Exchange had closed, the news came over the ticker: Steel had declared a $1 dividend on its common, its first since the fat days of 1937. It was also its first to be declared at a monthly meeting, and without forewarning rumors, in 23 years...