Word: slacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he was so imprudent as to fill his slack old stomach with a few dates soaked in water, St. Gandhi lay on a couch last week speechless from stomach ache at the wedding of his plump son Devadas to Miss Luxmi Raja Gopal Achariar, daughter of a Nationalist Congress leader...
Meanwhile the purest peace reigned in the palace of King Carol. No voice had risen to connect him in any way with the Skoda scandal, and his slack-chinned younger brother Prince Nicholas suddenly decided that a year and a half of morganatic marriage with svelte Jana Lucia Deletz was enough (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931,). Following the promptings of Queen Mother Marie he cast Jana aside last week, made peace with King Carol, arranged to return to Bucharest, resume his royal rank...
...easy job. Trustees, closer in touch than those of boarding schools, may have too many notions about running things. The parents and children may be more concerned with social life than with scholarship. Day schools are never very lavishly endowed, and when hard times come there is not much slack to be taken up. Last week, very much aware of these things, the headmaster of socialite Chicago Latin School for Boys announced "retirement" at the end of the school year...
...sticks." The Baby R. 0. G. class was limited to models of 30 sq. in. maximum wing area, 8 in. length. One after another 20 "babies" took off from the floor, made wide spirals toward the arched ceiling, propellers flailing the air. One after another fluttered floorward, rubber motors slack, to land on paper-thin balsa-wood wheels, until at the end of 7½ min. only one was still in the air for a new world record in its class...
From his observation and ripe reflection the Vagabond draws this conclusion: that, with the probable exception of life at Versailles in the reign of the Sun God, there never existed a more vacant, unintelligent, wasteful, slack, stupid, unsound, decayed, vapid, altogether delightful way for a young woman of ability and beauty to spend her evenings and sleep her mornings. The three cousins and the two dear friends have never quite agreed with the Vagabond, but then neither will Anne-whom Aristotle would call the efficient cause of this disquisition. Anne may, near the end of January come near admitting that...