Word: rumpledness
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Rumpled Cordiality. The cards were put face up. Curtly but calmly Vishinsky spoke of "the new outbreak of Fascist terror" in Greece and the use of British troops there as "a danger to peace and security." As mild in manner, Bevin was even rougher in words. In Greece, he said...
A couple of hours after these outbursts, Bevin went to a party at the Soviet Embassy. Jolly as a rumpled, just-fed bear, he backslapped Vishinsky and horsed him around for the photographers. Vishinsky loved it; never was there a more eloquent manifestation of that everpresent, always-pathetic Russian longing...
James Thurber, world-weary artist-humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin...
Double Take. Alike in talent, they are poles apart in temperament. Prankish, pun-loving Grouse is easygoing, Lindsay something of a hypochondriac. Warns Grouse: "Don't ever ask Howard how he feels, because he'll tell you." Lindsay likes a drink; Grouse swore off "in the middle of...
The Prime Minister's new Steve Early is one of the bright boys of British Socialism: chunky, rumpled, pipe-smoking Francis Williams. Reporters from many nations had applauded Francis Williams' deft handling of British publicity at the San Francisco conference. He convinced Tory Anthony Eden that Britain stood...