Word: rumpledness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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1. A class-conscious communist who conquers every handicap and convinces the people of the truth of the ideology. This figure is quite like the hero of the cowboy movies. He can fight against all odds and win even so. The only difference is that the communist does not wear...
They gave her the big buildup. In the first days of shooting she was photographed-in Technicolor, of course-peeping through the autumn foliage, splashing in her swimming pool, lounging in her penthouse, peeking roguishly from underneath the rumpled bedclothes. No doubt remembering the animated vermin that made such a...
Public Enemy No. I. Day after day, rumpled, greying Harry Ashmore, 41, turned out some of the most eloquent editorials of his distinguished career, supplied guidance and a stream of wisecracks for impatient newsmen from all over the world, briefed Government official on critical developments. Twice he scurried up to...
At 6:15 p.m. the debaters in Room 222 of the parish house of Minneapolis' Central Lutheran Church sent out for sandwiches. At 8:30 a rumpled young minister emerged to empty a piled-high wastebasket. At 9 130 another minister came out in his stocking feet, tieless and...
Birdlime in a Dell. It sounds like dismal stuff, but from the first lines of this play the Irish language contrasts with modern stage English as a cage of songbirds contrasts with a yardful of hens, and the reader is quickly caught in a Grand McGuignol of fatalist humor. Like...