Word: rumpledness
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A few days later G&246ring met the Allied press. Fifty-odd newsmen (and some visiting Mexican generals) saw him seated under a pepper tree in Augsburg, fidgeting with a pair of sky-blue gloves. The sun was hot; so were some of the questions. G&246ring sweated, constantly mopped...
Rumpled Henry Wallace took his place at the Speaker's stand, tapped the gavel solemnly. The white clock in the House chamber stood at 1:01 p.m.; the U.S. Congress was assembled in joint session. But what Congress had to do was of no importance to anyone. It was...
The London Symphony Orchestra and a white-robed choir played and sang American music, classical and Tin Pan Alley. Then Ambassador Winant, austere in striped trousers, his usually rumpled hair combed and glistening, moved to the podium. He spoke in his softly earnest tones: "Grant us brotherhood not for this...
Later in the week, from the depths of a rumpled bed in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, beside the dictaphone to which she confides notes for her daily column, the fabulous Elsa admitted that she had been very angry with Mr. Knight. She could think of no one he could...
That was in mid-March 1942. The MacArthur who flew into Australia then was the picture of what had happened to the U.S. in the Pacific. He had been West Point's First Captain, and one of its greatest students. He had been the Rain bow Division's...