Word: languidness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affably prowled before his men in his sweeping tails, conducting, adding neat phrases on the piano, introducing his numbers with graceful speeches. His music, as usual, was practically all by himself (with heavy contributions in orchestration and improvising from the boys). It was incandescent, original jazz, sometimes ebullient, sometimes languid, the product of one of the few authentically creative minds in contemporary music...
Lucky Lover. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo became French writer No. 1, but his home life took a bad turn. Worn out with childbearing, Adèle became languid. Hugo's best friend, waspish Critic Sainte-Beuve, offered her his sympathy, spread the story that he was her lover. Hugo believed his wife innocent but began to get around a little himself. At the rehearsal of one of his plays he noticed that when Actress Juliette Drouet read the line, "Ah, what is it that fills the whole heart?" she turned "her large dark eyes...
...Governor of Alaska went dutifully from class to class with an armful of books. Schoolmarms hovered in little knots around visiting male professors. Undergraduates sported and snorted in Mills College's big outdoor pool, or strolled in summery clothes under the giant eucalyptus trees. To a languid class in Mills's gleaming white music building, André Maurois read passages from his autobiography-in-preparation...
...possibilities. Seattle fishermen who went to vaunted hidden streams in the Grand Coulee country are finding good fish in nearby streams. Ohio and Mississippi river dwellers have returned to the old steamboat cruises. Many a resort would be a quiet place this year, would perhaps return to the more languid pre-gasoline pleasures of other times...
...manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...