Word: languidness
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Then the fun begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...
...Nothing could be better calculated to forestall such an awareness of life on the part of undergraduates than the "contact with the members of cultured families" which Mr. Ehrensperger wisely recommends. By all means, Quincy Street before Ford Hall, the tea-wafer before the Bread of Life, the languid yawn before the battle-cry! F. N. ARVIN...
This is a lively issue of the Advocate. We come to it indifferent, skeptical, almost--languid; we leave it with a sense of nervous quickening and clarity...
...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...