Word: moribundity
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...highball rather than perspire before the most thrilling of theatrical performances-now, in fact that summer is icumen in and the cut-rate ticket agencies are ready to cry " Cuckoo! " at their more expensive brethren-it is not out of order to consider some aspects of the season now moribund. The outstanding fact would seem to be, at first sight, the unquestionable success of an English dramatist, William Shakespeare, upon the American stage. New York has seen Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet break all their previous long-run records for America-besides a good production of The Merchant of Venice...
...time of the Washington Conference in November, 1921, it became fairly clear that the Lansing-Ishii agreement was moribund. President Harding practically said so. The powers swore not to encroach upon China, and Mr. Wang went home happier even though Baron Shidibara declared: "To say that Japan has special interests in China is simply to state a plain and actual fact...
...publication of evident literary merit cannot be brought to light without a most unfair attack being made upon it by certain narrow minded editors of the established literary organ. History teaches that when satire is used, decay has set in. Surely dishonest competition, anonymously conducted, discloses a moribund state of affairs. How can a small group of men who have failed in keeping alive Harvard's undergraduate literary traditions presume to sneer out of existence a publication of real literary promise? It is merely another attempt by the "vested interest" to stifle literary activity in the University...
...intentioned motives in perpetrating this airy and cloud-like "pedagogical debate." It seemed to me that there was more than one defect worthy of attention in our system of education; it seemed to me that collegiate opinion on matters of vital importance had for too long a time been moribund; it seemed to me that it was the duty of those who remained at home to exert themselves in their feeble or feeble-minded way in an effort to solve one of the many problems that will confront them after the war; but in all this seeming I was wrong...
...Club is in a moribund condition. The interest in the object for which it was founded has gradually waned until now the society is on the point of disbanding and selling its property. The present members of the club are greatly averse to this course, and, in order to save the valuable collection of the club, they make the following proposition. The entire club property will be turned over to the keeping of any responsible body of students who will guarantee to conduct their society as an art club. If this offer is not accepted before January 26, the property...