Word: rumpledness
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A drunk caught a glimpse of the rumpled, hatless man entering the hotel and shouted: "Why, there's old Henry! He looks like a herring." Heaving round, the drunk padded through the side door into the empty lobby of Cedar Rapids' Allison Hotel. Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace came...
Maybe you just slipped the mothballs in the pockets of your coonskin coat and took a last glance at a rumpled Yale program, but the fact is that it's already time to be thinking of next season's gridiron tickets.
Facts & Good Sense. At 46, Gallup is still the rumpled, well-fed Iowa boy who first came east to make his fortune. Tweedy, balding, good-humored, unhurried, he talks earnestly in a deep, Midwestern voice, addresses everyone indiscriminately as "my friend." A hard worker, he hates detail, refuses to read...
It gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed...
Rumpled, round-faced Américo Ghioldi, Socialist editor of the lively, clandestine weekly La Vanguardia and brother of Communist Chief Rodolfo Ghioldi, was making a strong bid for a seat as deputy from Buenos Aires. That would give him official immunity and possible relief from the police, who had...