Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...
...five years [we] have lived in the fear of the Russians and from the charity of the Americans," he said. "Before such a spectacle we are listless, as if history would wait, as if we had time-decades and decades-to transform our mentality, to suppress our customs barriers, to abandon our national egotisms ... I have been astounded by the amount of talent that has been expended in this Assembly to explain that something could not be done." In particular he attacked Winston Churchill, who more than any man had set the idea of federation to rolling...
Spirited, not listless, should now describe the Yardling soccer team that meets the Eli cubs in New Haven at 2 p.m. today in what promises to be an even game. Judging by this week's practice attendance, the freshmen have fully recovered from their lethargic spell before the Brown game...
...rather listless freshman soccer team defeated an even more listless Dartmouth squad, 2 to 0 on the Business School Field yesterday. After the game, Crimson coach Andrew "Poley" Gudya wryly commented "we looked better losing to Exeter...
...even more realistic prescription for the listless appetite: "Have a large family, and not quite enough to go round...