Word: torporous
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...obvious political fact emerged from the sweltering heat and torpor of the Republican Convention in Chicago last week...
...leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take it out and sell it." Other Darrow scenes...
Bats need no home during the lush summer nights when the air is full of edible insects. By day they hang in convenient roosts-trees, chimneys or barns. But when the chill months come and insects disappear, torpor comes over them and with it a longing for their own cave, the same spot where they have spent previous winters. Bats sometimes fly 100 miles to find their old cave and sleep in it until spring...
...scared gold from Europe they had record excess reserves ($5,200,000,000, up $2,128,000,000); that they had a record amount of idle cash (almost $6,000,000,000, up over $2,000,000,000).* But a striking fact was that in spite of this torpor, more than one bank succeeded in improving its profits in 1939. Most of those which did made their extra money by trading in bonds. The average price of U. S. Treasury long-term bonds rose from 104.2 in January to 109.5 in June, dropped to 100.5 in September, rose...
...Dipsy Doodlers played a one nighter at the Roseland Tuesday. All that can be done about it is to wave one leg feebly in the air and pray that the invasion won't come again. If there is one thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected...