Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instantly the bandits thrust Mr. Rosenthal before them. Worn and listless after three nights in the open, he staggered. As the soldiers kept up their fire two bandits drew their machetes, plunged them again and again into Mr; Rosenthal, finally fired two shots into his back. He, reeling, walked ten yards toward his would-be rescuers, pitched forward, dead...
...long Will Tilden, these five years kingpin of terrestrial tennis, there was little gaiety in him that evening. It was the third successive time this summer that Richards had trounced him. In the match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now listless. After a week of brilliance, he had had a sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes...
Next day, paired with little Mlle. Didi Vlasto, she played three listless sets against Mary K. Browne and Elizabeth Ryan, won the first, lost the next two and the match. She showed small interest in the game or its result. Fearless Whigs began to whisper that she might not be faking-she might really have something the matter. In the singles, Molla Mallory beat Joan Fry of England, Mlle. H. Conto-slavos of France beat Mrs. Marion Jessup, and Mlle. Lenglen, after displaying a physician's certificate that forbade her to take part in any vigorous match, beat...
...They work up to the last months of pregnancy and reenter the mills shortly after childbirth. The effects of this life are stamped upon them indelibly. Their backs are bent from the very nature of the work; their faces are pallid and drawn: their expression is haggard and listless: and they are worn with care and privation...
Having run the gamut of Count Craven's listless love, the United States Immigration officials, and Earl Carroll's bathtub parties, the Countess Cathcart could hardly be expected to desert the newspapers for the home. After a silence of almost two weeks she has cast aside her protective veil and issues forth a novelist, full-grown, from Scandal's forehead...