Word: languidness
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During the languid summer months there was a lull in their interchange, which was taken by the press to mean that Mexico City had persuaded Washington that the laws were not so very retroactive and confiscatory...
...already dead from the neck up. That it will remain popular for some time among the musical illiterate is quite possible and if the dancers like it there is no reason why they should not have it. But the day has gone by when musicians can even take a languid interest in the thing, for musical people it is now the last word in brainlessness and boredom...
Into the ocean at Biddeford Pool, Me., plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
...LITTLE LESS-Ashie Pharall-Appleton ($2.0 Valentine Forrester, a clear-eyed Bohemienne, finds herself attached to a post-war commission in hectic Vienna, where high living overcrusts the depths of misery and shillings loom large. Kit Mallory, cosmopolitan philanderer and frankly short on scruples, finds his languid way to her well guarded heart. How she chooses between this man, who lies neither to himself nor to her, and Paul Wychart, brotherly Virginian, makes an illuminating tale. Miss Pharall is plausible in her picture of a feminine heart both fine and philosophic. She has a knack for reproducing conversation, shunning mere...
...beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind of general tone of health and vigor begins to call the languid clubman and the lily-fingered litterateur from their opposite poles and give them a common interest in an important undergraduate occurrence...