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Word: listless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Democrats sat back with their feet up, cocked their thumb at the polls (Roosevelt in a landslide), the betting odds (Roosevelt 7-to-5), and waited placidly for Election Day. New York Democrats held their most listless convention in many a year and Chairman James Aloysius Farley never once mentioned President Roosevelt. The New Deal got no cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: In the Bag? | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Solitude," by Joe Sullivan, is something this famous pianoman won't live down for a long time-it's that bad... While Father Hincs is still the king of all pianomen to me, his work on his theme "Deep Forest" sounds a little listless... "W.P.A.," by Jan Savitt, is worth getting. While you may agree or disagree with its lyrics. It's one of the few times a Jazz song has had words that were really meaningful...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

Surprisingly enough, the Savitt and Donahue records are not as good as one would expect. The former's shuffle rhythm is uneven and listless and the arrangement not nearly as polished as Savitt's stuff usually is. Donahue's is very clever, but forced and strained in most of its passages. By the way, "Gin Mill Special" on the reverse of the Hawkins is better than all four of the others...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 3/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week an unaccountable gloom settled over Washington, wrapping its marble palaces in melancholy thick as the wet grey fogs that float up from the Potomac. Congress seemed listless, disheartened, worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deep Waters | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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