Word: languidness
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...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...
...Lowell House candidate for membership in Y.A.A. was of a pallid countenance, of a languid manner and with an eye in which there was a dreamy, furtive expression. He presented no appearance whatever of having any red blood in him, but he was a student of Aristotle, which seemed to be a hopeful sign...
POLITE ESSAYS-Ezra Pound-New Directions ($2.50). The casual but by no means languid prose of a great verse stylist. Sometimes crotchety, more often bright and sound, Ezra's remarks concern the works of Dante, Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Harold Monro, Laurence Binyon ("The younger generation may have forgotten Binyon's sad youth, poisoned in the cradle by the abominable dogbiscuit of Milton's rhetoric.") Also his famous piece on "How to Read...