Word: listlessly
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...been reviled, and with equally good reason. An appreciation is more in order than a review. This department is doing its full duty to its readers in saying merely that the passing years have treated the play and the players kindly. There is none of the mechanical action and listless mouthing of lines that one might expect after four years of daily performances. Miss Jeanne Eagels still puts all of herself into the role of Miss Sadie Thompson, the lady of ill repute who turns toys curvy the sedentary life of Pago Pago. The rest of the players still give...
...wants Chicago to become a city of inane and listless dilettantes in living. But no one can believe that one football game by service elevens will prevent that surely improbable misfortune. The more sane thinking done both there and here the fewer displays of peace profiteers or war worshippers will be necessary. And until the advent of that sane thinking the displays should at least be unheralded...
...Wednesday Law 1 won its second game of the winter, defeating the newly organized Law Independents 28-16 in a listless game. In the other encounter. Aris and Sciences won a decisive victory over Law 3 by a score...
...about five months stocks have scored a practically uninterrupted advance, and as a result the market became listless and top-heavy. Suddenly, and largely of its own weight, it toppled over. Leading shares, speculative favorites in the previous advance, showed a wide decline of from 10 to even 20 points from the year's high levels...
...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...