Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether Benito Mussolini is a turncoat politician who changed his Socialist red bandanna for a black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering if Socialist Mussolini may not have been a Fascist at heart all along...
Gorillas may languish in captivity but they do not necessarily die. Every death has its legitimate biological cause; homesickness and heartache are not included. This is equally true of all other inmates of zoo & circus. It has never been demonstrated that wild animals will die of captivity alone. Climate, food, disease are the three most powerful agents of death. Gorillas are much happier in southern lands, although they often adapt themselves to northern conditions. The New York Zoological Park has entertained gorillas for considerable lengths of time before sending them south; the Philadelphia Zoological Park has a grave gorilla...
...Today the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers meets here one century after the invention of John Thorp, to honor his memory by dedicating this tablet. We should all solemnly resolve that the industry which John Thorp, more than any other man, made possible, shall not languish, but shall gather renewed energy to the end that the textile industry of New England shall regain the leadership to which it is entitled...
...liberty in Colmar is that master mind of pro-German plotters in Alsace, the notorious Abbé Haegy. A tall, ascetic priest, with cold eyes, thin lips and eloquently gesturing hands, he was busy last week personally editing his pro-German newspaper, while several members of its staff languish in jail...
...their price rapidly in the Stock Exchanges. Although the latter movement has apparently halted, for the time being at least, the public still clamors for new securities and absorbs them readily. The Dodge financing is proof of that. With money as easy and abundant as it is, trade may languish for a time, but it can scarcely experience any severe jolts or curtailments...