Word: rumpledness
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Right from the start, the rumpled-look-ing graduate student from Vermont made a deep impression on President Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins University. But President Gilman did think that the young man was off on a wrong track. "Don't be so bookish," Gilman thundered. "Get out...
Ever since the "Ashcan" painters of the early igoos went looking for Beauty in alleys and gutters, U.S. artists have prided themselves on smoking the lady out of the most unexpected hiding places. Last week in a Manhattan gallery, Painter James Fosburgh smoked her out again. He had discovered her...
An hour or so later, at the Justice Department Building, Howard McGrath walked out of his office, his Homburg pulled forward, his double-breasted grey flannel rumpled, a glazed look in his eyes. His voice quavered as he talked to the waiting press; no tears rolled down his cheeks, but...
More, than half a million Americans during the past year have been bewitched by the Devil. This particular Devil is a jovial old party who wears a rumpled dinner jacket over his generous paunch, and sports no horns or tail. His glance, though sometimes leering, is never demoniac, and he...
On lightning trips around his empire, he thinks nothing of flying 7,000 miles in four days, starting his sessions with Sears store managers at 5:45 a.m. sharp, and whirling through stores, speeches, conferences, until everyone else is ready to drop. His clothes are often rumpled, his shoes unshined...