Word: slumbrous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just a sweet little green island set in the blue waters of the Irish Sea, with its rolling hills and slumbrous glens, full of gorse and heather and fern; three or four quaint little fishing ports and one larger town devoted to the joyous and rather rollicking life of the visiting industry...
Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...white-haired mental healer, his cadenced words clothed in the richest drapery of metaphor, lulled a fashionable audience into a semi-slumbrous condition yesterday afternoon while he voiced his theories on self-healing." And so a new healer, stealing a rival's thunder, appears in New York, and hypnotizes an audience eighty percent women, by the spell of his voice and the music of a fine orchestra...