Word: languidness
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...organ of the Chu Rite Tobacco Co., refusing to "support the company"? Picture him publishing an article in his paper that was contributed by the Anti-Tobacco League! Preposterous! He would be fired in a hurry. His paper exists for the purpose of breaking down sales resistance and inspiring languid salesmen. Let the college editor go and do likewise. Let him spend his time puzzling out ways of selling his college. Let his editorials be inspirational, exhorting application to study, denouncing immoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass. That...
That winter, he lay ill in Charles Brown's house, languid with fever, able to write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then...
...protest. For weeks past it has been to me a source of extreme haemeotropiros to peruse the languid quaintness of your dramatic reviews, from which I invariably recover (than my lucky stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously pen-handled by the critic. But I forgive him--now, for I have discovered that only innocence or naivete has produced the effect of an apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after...
...thesis was: "If it is immoral to needlessly impair the body's vitality, then lack of sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair and feed their minds on what takes the least mental effort. They wish that something would happen . . . A few men seem to be able to operate indefinitely on a very...
...marvels of the age. In listening to a symphony the people who possess this strange faculty are said to see all the colors of the spectrum succeeding each other in harmonious arrangement. Some tones, they say, are red, others voluptuous purple. Even the ordinary man is now familiar with languid blues in music...