Word: leaden
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...shallow, feline wife an acrid brilliance that justified in part the so-called entertainment. A most doggedly unpleasant wife, yet somehow crookedly alluring, she made the author's thesis possible if not plausible. When she was on the stage, streaks of gleaming silver showed through the leaden surface of the play. Alexander Woollcott-"Miss Cornell and her finely competent performance provided the only interest to sustain us through a ponderous and uneventful evening." Heywood Broun-"I cannot remember as much as five minutes in the entire evening which were not tiresome...
...championship mark for the A. A. U. Last week Paddy, white-haired and portly, tried again in the A. A. U. meet in Manhattan. The best he could get was a third place. But a young collegian, a mere junior at Princeton, Ralph Hills, stepped forward and heaved the leaden ball 47 feet 11½ inches, setting a new National A. A. U. mark. Three feet and half an inch still remains to the world's mark. But Hills is young. He may yet grow to full stature...
Hampered by an absence of active dramatic material in the life of Lee, the playwright took upon himself the leaden load of unrelieved character drawing. Lee was, first of all, a gentleman; gentlemen make a point of avoiding the spectacular. An even keel of character can leave only a steady wake. Steadiness implies monotony...
People who gloat over a " justice which treads with leaden feet and strikes with an iron hand...
...addition to two quotations from poems, the opinion closes with such moral observations as: " Though justice sometimes treads with leaden feet, if need be she strikes with an iron hand. Verily, the wages of sin are death and sin pays its wages"; as well as such grim humor as: " There is no error appearing in the record, except the great error of the defendant in murdering his wife...