Word: listless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sylvia Sydney Not Listless...
...have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds together to produce a powerful program of persuasion. The halls of Harvard will soon echo the salubrious arguments of Olympian debaters, who plan to challenge the more retiring amongst...
...Varsity Polo Team, playing at West Point, defeated the Army in a listless game 10 to 7, Saturday. Piling up an early lead, the Crimson malletmen were never headed, and the only real Army threat came in the last chukker...
...York his automobile caught fire. While the car burned Trainer Heckler worked to save his fleas, removing jar after glass jar from his suitcase, unscrewing the caps to give his pets fresh air. All rallied from the effects of the smoke except Paddy. Next night he was listless, refused his hoop. Next night he was dead...
...dusty sanctum beneath the moldy crags of Memorial Hall, the world was good, and his heart was warm. The crash of heavy trunks reverberates slowly through sacred elms, and the last empty truck rattles futile chains as it whisks into the night; the faint whispering echos of listless leather on cold marble pass into infinity, and friendly beacons twinkle from the yard. Freshmen are a strange race characterized by anxiety, pennants, mothers, and rubbers; but they are dear to the Vagabond. The old fellow envies their careless confusion, he,--ah, there it is! Was that a first timid querulous Reinhard...