Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which had made him so famous was, for him, the music of yesterday. Yet there were not a few in the great assemblage who love still the loveliness he has forsworn; and, though the members of the Philharmonic Orchestra seemed to weary of all his impetuous antics, to grow listless in sounding their horns and strings, these people applauded long the music of the old Stravinsky, by the new Stravinsky...
Little Walker took the first four rounds. Savagely he tore into McTigue, slashed him around the ropes with rights and lefts, made small men stand up in their chairs. The next three rounds were not so fast; the fighters were listless. The bell rang for the eighth, both boxers dragged languidly into action amid a salvo of boos. More flaccid pommeling, clinching, pushing. A raucous fan began to sing Every Hour I Knead Thee, was silenced. In the last two rounds, McTigue feebly rallied. Referee Lewis gave the victory to little Walker. McTigue kept his title, as the boxing...
...After a listless opening session in which Coach Bigelow resorted to frequent substitutions, the Crimson skaters came on the ice for the second period with only one change in the starting lineup. Newell played goal. Beals scored his second goal of the evening in short order, and at this point the Terriers, with their captain, Kontoff, as the principal aggressor, began to rough things up. The Crimson players retaliated, and for the balance of the game the penalty box was rarely unoccupied. In the final period, a collision with Beals so injured Kontoff that he had to be removed from...
...knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tearstained, slummocky. When she began to speak, a little hysterical, the captain woke up. She told of a night spent on her knees before an unopened bed, of wrestling with God, of foreseen tortures of Hell, of crimes she must confess. Day. None of the crimes confessed had been committed...
...woman, listless, tearstained, slum-mocky...