Word: languorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them...
...Child is a Santa Claus and horses vaguely limned in pink highlights. In Three-Masted Schooner, green and bronze hues on the sails seem to reflect light from both shore and sea. Most striking of the nudes depicts an olive-skinned brunette and a rosy blonde reclining in affectionate languor on a couch, the pink sands of the Mediterranean gleaming through a window, a pink curtain blowing across a table, a statuet of a man on a pedestal in the background...
...counts the number of students taking History 1 in the New Lecture Hall. In the evenings he watches the first of the terrific little moths fling themselves with pings of desperation against the tin shade of his study lamp. And in the mornings, supine upon his pallet of horrid languor, he gazes with admiration at the accurate spider stretching her slow web across a corner in anticipation of the few flies which wander solemnly through the unremembered rafters of Memorial Hall...
...bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does not like to talk before a performance. Before and after all, she is an actress. She is intelligent...
...obvious to any critical observer. The belief in the passive resistance of undergraduates to jingoistic ideas of one kind or another is upset by the realization that the undergraduate is passively accepting House originality, even during the last three months. The process is slow, but its very passivity and languor indicates the impressionability of the students...