Word: limp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain and First Lord of the Treasury, let himself go limp and restful as he and the President viewed and reviewed the economic distress of the world, tried to bring into common focus War Debts, armaments, tariff barriers, trade restrictions, silver, currency. On it Edouard Herriot, France's chunky special envoy who quickly tires of standing, eased his short legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large...
...speechless at the austerity of the new circumstances was safely tethered. The corporation replaced its hats and moved on, definitely jovial now, and disappeared into University Hall. The wind struck at the Vagabond again, and he walked out of hearing of the Gaelic torrent being applied to the limp lawbreaker...
...books, but watchful lest they forget to appear bored; Freshmen do study, just before examinations. But the glamour of the scene did not escape even their indifferent eyes. Perhaps they were a little more aware of the sweat rolling off the double chin of the fat butcher, and the limp of the clerk whose shoes were too now, but those purple fezes and furred shakoes made their conquest...
Sailors muttered discontentedly in the shadow of limp sails. Low water rations, salt meat, and a glaring sun. A pensive figure paced back and forth in the bows. The horizontal beams of the afternoon sun were probing a cloud-bank in the East. A dark, jagged line broke the horizon where the clouds parted. The figure in the bow started and stared a moment. "Land, ho!" The caked dirt cracked on the seamen's cheeks in the deep furrows of broad grins. Rotting shirts split across the shoulders as the men leaped to their feet. Not every man could have...
...play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard. a growling, hobbling, blinking chief of detectives whose duty it is to snare an amazingly subtle thief named Arsene Lupin. Asked how he proposes to do it, Lionel Barrymore snarls: ''Oh, I'll stumble around, growl a little, limp a little bit." It is a very convincing speech, because this is what Lionel Barrymore has been doing in the cinema for 15 years...