Word: rumpledness
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There was an assured knock on the door of our room in the reaches of the House. Before anyone could answer, an intense young man with horn-rimmed glasses and a rumpled blue suit strode in.
The cops broke into the gas-filled Manhattan basement with a sense of dreary familiarity-spectators at a sad and sordid drama which had been enacted a thousand times before in a thousand other cheap rooms. There was the battered stove with its jets silently exhaling death. There were the...
It has even touched West Berlin's massive, rumpled Mayor Ernst Reuter. Last week, gazing over a raddled cigar into the cold grey of the morning outside the Rathaus window, he grumbled: "Terrible. Terrible and depressing. I wish I were away somewhere, in the sun."
Charles Laughton thinks that the modern world has been brought up to look rather than to listen. This week he goes on TV with This Is Charles Laughton to help redress the balance. All that viewers will have to look at is Actor Laughton himself, a fat man in a...
Clad in a rumpled suit and a grubby mackintosh, stocky, tousle-haired Theodo: Blank, who is West Germany's defense boss, looks nothing like the traditional great-coated, heel-clicking Prussian militarist. As secretary of the Miners' Union, he once told an Allied general: "I know you generals...