Word: rumpledness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Will It Be Tomorrow? This week Paul Douglas, a burly man in a rumpled grey suit, stepped on to the Senate floor to speak his mind in the Great Debate. The Senate listened with respect. In his 58 years, Paul Douglas had been a college professor, a nationally known...
Though it gives human, often humorous, color to the grim story, the film never compromises its chilling realism with the conventions of movie fiction. The heroine (Sheila Manahan) is unglamorously plump and dowdy; the young hero (Hugh Cross) wears a rumpled, ill-fitting suit; the Scotland Yard superintendent (Andre Morell...
As the Chinese Red envoy barked on, the U.S.'s Austin sat, large and unhappy in a rumpled brown suit, wearing his translation phones like a crown of thorns. Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb listened with the urbane equanimity a Foreign Office man must pull on along with...
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last week that the cost of living index had risen another 0.5% in the month ending Sept. 15, it added a comforting note. The price of food, said BLS, went down 0.2%. But consumers, who have noticed no discernible drop in food prices...
Here it was October, with the leaves falling, and Harry Truman had not yet had his summer vacation. When he appeared for his weekly news conference, he looked a little like a man who could use one. The usually natty Mr. Truman seemed almost rumpled after a day that began...