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...House last week Scot MacDonald interrupted a bickering debate with this cry of despair: "What is the use! What is the use of members watching the clock go round and getting up to indulge in talk, talk, talk? It is bringing this House into contempt-this listless, lifeless talk, talk, talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...bear upon it, and instead of a violent, submarine volcanic action I saw two mammoth denizens of the deep-two whales-who were having a glorious time, splashing and frisking, tail-thwacking and nose-bumping, diving and hurdling, and their actions for a considerable radius had churned the calm, listless sea into a veritable caldron of boiling, foaming, angry water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...Laetitia is an exciting and frightening creation; Basil Sydney's La Ruse is morbid and passionate; the lesser parts are splendidly done. Yet only in the last act do these characters produce the witty, sardonic tensions which you expect of them. The early moments of the play remain listless while Playwright Mayer's dialog is getting up momentum. Waterloo Bridge. Close by Waterloo railway station in London is a bridge upon whose parapet are posted sooty little strumpets waiting for soldiers returning home on leave. A German air raid sends them scurrying to their rooms and Myra, chubby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 20, 1930 | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...soon as Cagle and Murrell were taken out the Army team seemed listless and mediocre. As soon as they went in again it seemed as formidable as 26-0 against Boston University would indicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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