Word: torpidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...
Like Alfred Loewenstein, shrewd Belgian financier, now dead by a fall from his plane, Valparaiso's Loewenstein uses his airplane to increase his business. To every customer who buys $25 worth of groceries for cash he gives a lengthy air ride-to the chagrin of his torpid competitors...
...Dozed through a torpid week during which Miss Megan Lloyd George?large daughter of small David?was selected by the Liberal party machine to stand for election to Parliament in the constituency of Anglesey, called "The Mother of Wales...
There a member of Lord Irwin's sinewy entourage told with a grin how the Viceroy had passed en route through the territory of the insignificant and torpid Rajah of Jubbal. Polite surprise that the Englishmen had ventured so far afield to hunt was the Potentate's first reaction. But when informed that they had left their sporting guns behind and were merely out for exercise, the Rajah of Jubbal became morose, evinced incredulity, and was clearly worried as to possible designs upon his little raj by a snooping Big White Viceroy...
Briskly, young Black Mustache stepped from his car, peeled off coat, rolled up sleeves, fiddled with the carburetor of the stalled car, and within ten minutes had its motor briskly humming. Only then did the torpid professors recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the royal arms and rampant lion of Bulgaria. Figuratively rubbing greasy eyes, the pedagogues stared hard at Black Mustache, and recognized at last His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, 34 and still the most eligible of Balkan bachelors...