Word: slumbrous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slumbrous, easy-going Siam the gentle comedy of deposing King Prajadhipok as Absolute Monarch and reinstating King Prajadhipok as Constitutional Monarch was wafted to its close last week...
This is the story of the fountains. Here is the superior detachment of '95, the sweet, sad memories of '28, the slumbrous indifference of '35. And with whom does the Vagabond range his forces? There can be but one choice, but one loyalty--with '28. '95 is too old and '35 is too young, but we, in our time, we have known. Give back the Cambridge heat, the long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle...
...left the Tribune, excited M. Franklin-Bouillon fairly snarled at still slumbrous M. Briand: "FRANCE WILL NO LONGER BE DUPED...
...American Laboratory Theatre, small, highbrow, student-subscription organization, and serves to introduce its new directress Maria Germanova, late of the Moscow Art Theatre. Perhaps the greatest exposition of the horrors of ennui, it introduces three daughters of a deceased Russian army officer who are compelled to remain in a slumbrous provincial town when they long for the bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed in a duel just after she has finally agreed to marry him. Masha's adulterous transports with a visiting...