Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, White House press conferences in the Coolidge administration have been quiet, circumspect affairs. Last week, however, the President surprised the newsmen by having a grievance of which he spoke feelingly and at length. He was, he said, convinced that the Interstate Commerce Commission was a sluggish body which sadly required verve. It had taken the Commission three years to fix the cost of mail transportation. At the end of this time the Commission had judged that the government owed railroads $45,000,000 for previous service. The President stated that he had objected to this decision, had refused...
...second period the game became sluggish, and neither team made any outstanding plays...
...protesting against the sluggish formalism of the English churches, declared that every man must experience a personal revelation of God, an "Inward Light," which availed more than mere parroting of Scripture. After the organization of the first Quaker community in Lancashire, the movement spread rapidly through northern England and Wales...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
...Saturday's practice the first boat looked sluggish and the oarsmen weren't rowing well together. As a result, this morning, the first two boats only paddled down to the two mile mark and back with special attention being paid to the individual form...