Word: stagnant
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Situation in 1921. 4,500,000 unemployed; industry and commerce stagnant ; agriculture prostrate; business depressed; Government bonds below par; peace delayed; misunderstanding in foreign relations...
...pledge ourselves to the maintenance of the capitulations in Turkey, and are opposed to any new treaty, such as that recently negotiated by the Secretary of State and now before the Senate, subjecting American citizens to the jurisdiction of the corrupt and stagnant native Turkish courts...
...oarsman decides to keep silent, despite the strident urgings of his sweetheart, whose stagnant purity is the one false note in the play?everyone else is as humanly frank as the law will allow. Louis Calhern gives a redoubtable performance as the Yale oarsman, achieving the feat of looking like a 'reluctant caveman. Judith Anderson is exceptionally facile as the insidious cobra. Ralph Morgan as the betrayed husband and Clara Moores as the insistently good sweetheart add to the absorbtion of a drama that leaves one flushed...
...crew illustrate the Mariner's recital by grouping themselves on the ship in grotesquely contorted poses, looking uncannily like corpses stagnant in seaweed. Their edifyingly horrific effect is heightened by masks made by James Light in Benda's most blood-curdling manner. The masks, creepily memorable, have a greenish tinge, with dank hair plastered over them...
...Shaw, undoubtedly a predominant and scintillant Socialist littérateur of the Victorian Age, whose genius has spread to the contemporary era where it shines like a beacon in the stagnant morass of "middleclass morality," burst forth in the last of his Fabian Society lectures in a vivid address on Is Civilization Decaying...