Word: languores
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...London, the iguanas (giant lizards) in the zoo last week refused all nutriment. Lonely and cold, their hearts aswoon for the drowsy sweetness of the jungles of Brazil, they pined in languor, gazing with lacklustre eyes at troughs filled with such tasty morsels as corn, ants, dead flies, bread and mice. Keepers conferred. One day huge electric lights were strung along the lizard house. The iguanas awoke out of their nostalgia. They wriggled joyfully in the light of the strange and sterile suns above them; crept to the troughs, ate greedily...
...macabre yowl of modern America was about to be lifted into a new melodic line; patrons were about to learn that there is no modern music worth mentioning except the flawed melodies that a very old barroom piano, operated by a coin, can send tilting, spilling, staggering, into the languor of a summer twilight...
...fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes...
...late summer dusk stooped to enfold the arid campus of New York university, Manhattan, one evening last week, a band struck up. The slow movement of the brasses and drums and the grandiose melancholy of the horns contributed a poetic languor to the cool beginning of the evening. But no languor possessed the many listeners. They whispered to each other, took excited notes, whistled snatches of tune. They were playing a game...
Rickets is a medical term for poverty?poverty of the bones. When the virtuous salts, retrieved by the body's chemistry from fruits and greens, course more slowly through the blood because of the languor of the heart in winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that...