Word: misfitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star's propensity for stealing scenes, neatly takes the picture away from him. Rooney cannot sing, but Judy Garland can, and proves it pleasantly with such sure-fire numbers as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones; a new tune called Hoe Down; and a misfit: Chin Up, Cheerio, Carry...
...eyed Larry Adler blows the mouth organ with Pierian purity, can make it sound like an oboe, fiddle, horn, wawa trumpet. Paul Draper, son of Muriel Draper and nephew of monologuist Ruth Draper, was a stuttering misfit until he learned to dance. Now Paul Draper profitably applies ballet technique and good music to tap dancing, with such warmth and intelligence that many rate him the equal or superior of Fred Astaire...
...Barrow was a Detroit ragamuffin, toting ice for fly-by-night icemen to earn a few pennies to keep his feet in shoes. Transplanted from an Alabama cotton patch at the age of 12, the strapping, slow-thinking boy, only two generations away from slavery, had found himself a misfit in city schools where his classmates were nearly half his age. He never got beyond the fifth grade...
...Enemy is Stronger." It was bad from the very beginning. The men of Habe's regiment were soft after months of misdirected idleness. Their gas masks were inadequately sealed over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman...
...participation, the readjustment to civil life after the war is over would be far less violent. The ex-pilot would be qualified for fairly well-paying positions in technical industry, but the draftee, having learned no practical knowledge useful for peacetime objectives, would find himself an unemployed misfit...