Word: slouchingly
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...Dawes crossed his legs, lighted his underslung pipe and balanced his stiff straw hat on his knees. Gov. Bryan, after a moment of politeness said, 'Excuse me, General,' and covered his bald and shining dome with his black slouch...
Wallace Irwin is short, stoutish, always smiling through his glasses and snapping his eyes as he talks in little grunting periods. He will slouch down on a couch, then tell you a story as though it were being shot at you from some great distance. The last time I saw him he was complaining of a diet that was being imposed upon him, which he insisted was nothing but "rabbit's food...
Captain See is no slouch of a mathematical astronomer in his own right. A graduate of American universities and a Ph.D. of Berlin, a member of all the great astronomical societies of the world, a research worker of established reputation in the very fields in which Einstein has gained his fame, he is " starred " in Cattell's American Men of Science, which means that he ranks among the 1,000 most distinguished scientists and the 50 leading astronomers in America whose work is supposed to be most important, by vote of their own colleagues. And so is Dr. Campbell...
...large measure justifies. The men with A and B minds who are content to slide comfortably through college with a "gentleman's mark", C Taking interest in their activities their athletics and nothing else, are the same men who will be equally content twenty years from now to slouch comfortably at roller-top desks behind six-inch cigars...
...spread his civic policy to the whole state and nation, as he now threatens, be may find he has started something which he cannot finish; the cause which he is nourishing may grow to such uncontrollable proportions as to plunge himself as well as his enemies into the slouch of anarchism. It is a situation which any friend of organized society, whether or not a citizen of Illinois, must look upon with apprehension and alarm...