Word: misshapen
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...told the conference: "You have reached the dangerous stage in which all men think well of you." Less gallant was the University's Peter Nearing's plea for group medical care: "Our women are . . . puny, with few Venuses among them. We see our men as undersized and misshapen. . . . Our beaches look like circus sideshows." Nova Scotians supposed that soon Father Jimmy would fix that...
...nose is 2 in. wide. His hands are a foot long. His fingers are double jointed and, comments Dr. Humberd, "curl themselves up in bizarre positions and assume ungainly and gruesome postures." His feet "are disproportionally large and he is very flatfooted. His toes are misshapen...
...turned their imaginative spyglass on the squalid, violent Gorbols section of Glasgow, on the south bank of the Clyde. Last week they reported on what they had seen, in a strange uneven book that suggested they could not quite agree on their findings. They saw horrors galore, filth, brutality, misshapen creatures of an unknown kind, a few recognizable human beings...
...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...
...award of the commission to Sculptor Moretti was followed by weeks of haggling over models. Up for debate was the question of whether Birmingham's Vulcan should be ugly and misshapen, as mythology insists, or a handsome Hermes as many Alabamians insisted. The ugly Vulcan won. Plaster casts were made during the winter and the hulking Vulcan, 50 ft. 6 in. from head to toe, was cast by the James R. McWane Foundry. The finished product weighed 60 tons...