Word: languidness
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Satchel Paige figures that in 50-odd years he has pitched at least 2,000 games. Record books in the Negro leagues are mostly blank or spotted pages, but even the authenticated feats of the long (6 ft. 3 in.) and languid Satchel are almost as incredible as the legend...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and an elegant English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
After the revolution, Prophet Menzhinsky became the Leninists' knout. Lenin called him "the decadent neurotic." This policeman was interested in Persian art and higher mathematics. He wrote erotic poetry and read pornographic novels in his office between executions. He was plump, languid, soft-voiced, given to blue moods. He said: "Our task is to bring culture to the masses at a terrific speed." His OGPU, successor to the CHEKA,' brought death by execution and starvation to millions of Ukrainian and other peasants...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and an elegant English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...
...Ideal Husband. Paulette Goddard and a fine English cast in a lovely, languid production of Oscar Wilde's play (TIME...