Word: listless
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...initial stanza was listless to the extreme, brightened only by occasional solo assaults by Paul, fleet Canadian defense player, and Jackson's defense of the goal. A few minutes before the period ended, Captain John Tudor '39 and M. N. Stanley '30 swept down the ice, narrowly missing sharp angle shots...
...Daisy. A listless musical comedy. The cast includes Marie Saxon, whose legs win her at least the title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...
...unlike Socrates, Dr. Meiklejohn prefers to be a philosopher before a small group of strained young faces, than before a half a thousand listless, far-away faces in a giant lecture hall. He would rather be an organ-grinder's monkey than a bandleader's baton. He has staked his reputation on a small college with a limited course of instruction, thorough within itself; and if that be poison, there is still Columbia, Cornell, California, Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Brown...
...third round were upsets. Hunter beat "Bounding Basque" Borotra, 0-6, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, 6-2. Australian Jack Crawford eliminated John Van Ryn, Princeton star. Brugnon beat Dr. King who had slumped after his match with Hennessey, Disconcerted, Cochet captured three out of four listless sets from menacing Mercur...
...derive from its limited fauna but from the Latin name Mona. Its people are tall, Celtic, peaceable. In their looks there is none of that impish cruelty which is supposed by many to account for the condition of their cats. One of these last, a baleful creature with listless and ungraceful motions, attended the congress of the Manxmen, in the capacity of mascot...