Word: overgrown
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...true that one gets a trifle weary of continued reference to "You, Oh Bobus, with your sleek, milk fed, overgrown, fatted, unbewitching, altogether plebeian body," and the like. But underneath all this balderdash and expletive lies something fine and sterling. An unflinching faith in man, a sound penetration into the perplexities of existence, a peculiar, earnest crystal ray of hope that leaps through the chinks of his Stygian gloom...
...Vagabond has been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this marble there are hollows perhaps two inches deep...
...Scripps and Roy Wilson Howard were not born. In Chicago the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (Tribune) astounded its readers by printing in a single issue the entire New Testament, just revised; and the Herald (now Hearst's Herald Examiner) was established. Also in 1881, in the overgrown pueblo village of Los Angeles, was born the Los Angeles Times, which shortly was acquired by General Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, a goateed, long-mustached turkey-cock who loved a fight and was sometimes compared to Editors Jones of the New York Times and Greeley of the Tribune. With true...
...fact the President had formally invited him for the evening meal. His declaration that all he knew about the Panama revolt was what he read in the papers came close to being pure mendacity. Biographer Pringle's only thesis is that Roosevelt was always an adolescent and, like most overgrown boys, indulged in loud exaggerations, in public indiscretions...
...plays atrocities. There is nothing distinguished about This Modem Age but, like a medium-priced sedan, it runs rapidly and smoothly along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls on a sofa. Trite shot: a scene of revelry which reaches its peak...