Word: moribundity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banks of the Charles. The action to reduce the price of tickets and cut down all unnecessary expenses, considering the present economic condition and the deficits of former Class Day Committees, is timely and praiseworthy. The Class Day Committee has shown wisdom in vigorously dispensing with dead and moribund traditions, and in making the most of the facilities provided by the House Plan...
...with an entertainment in the Junior Common Room, generally of fair quality and well-attended. Only two attempts have been made to create discussion-clubs in the House. The Historical Society and the Politico-Economic Society began promisingly with lectures by faculty members, but they are now apparently moribund...
Advocacy of the League blighted the end of the Wilson Administration. It helped defeat James Middleton Cox in 1920. Even today a political belief persists that no outspoken friend of the League can sit in the White House. But as a practical issue the League is so moribund that few persons bothered to associate Mr. Baker with it until he doggedly championed U. S. entry last month. Well aware of the damage it can do parties and politicians he hastened to lay its ghost...
...makes Paros Emperor of the U. S., himself takes the omnipotent job of Attorney General. Then he has a series of field-days working off old grudges, boosting what he regards as worthy objects. Prohibition is immediately repealed. Taking a tip from the noble experiment, Thayer revivifies the moribund book business by prohibiting it. The tale leaps from improbability to implausibleness, ends in a gory dime-novel welter. But it is readable; and some of the U. S. satire is telling, though often told...
...good friend Banker Jesse Holman Jones. The trustees, who loaned Governor Sterling $800,000, found one of his properties could be sold immediately-the Post-Dispatch, only morning paper in the city, which the Governor established in 1924 by merging his newly acquired Dispatch with the old, moribund Post...