Word: moribundity
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...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 Prohibition is immediately repealed.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...
...Author. Walter Boughton Pitkin has worked at 40 different jobs. He started herding cattle at 14, at 53 is professor of journalism at Columbia University. In his spare time he writes books, occasionally gives galvanizing advice to editors of moribund magazines...
...comedy which opened at the Wilbur Monday night, has definite moribund qualities. In fact it has been many long months since this reviewer has squirmed through a play that offered less in the way of entertainment. Billed as a comedy, "High Hat", for such the incipient theatrical corpse has been dubbed, presents a paucity of humorous dialogue, of amusing situations, and of adequate acting that is astounding in its completeness. It is easily possible to choose, not at random, but with scrupulous selectiveness the cream of the jests...
...fied to the chaste red plush of the old Park Avenue Hotel. Her insubordination was dearly bought, however, for she was proved mentally unbalanced and passed the remainder of her days in a gloomy asylum for the insane. Ella conformed, and as just reward for her restraint, became the moribund companion to a succession of poodles who in their mistress likeness have been haughtily flirting with death...