Word: rumpledness
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At week's end the amiable, rumpled Marquess of Lothian, returning to his post after a visit to Britain, stepped off the Atlantic Clipper at LaGuardia Airport, a dispatch case in his hand, England's problem on his shoulders. The British Ambassador told newsreels, reporters:
In a green carpeted suite on the 14th floor sat Wendell Lewis Willkie, a tousle-haired Peter the Hermit in a rumpled sack suit, waiting for news of his crusade. He lounged in a big chair, his feet propped up on another, his coat gradually inching up his big back...
The manner in which Rouault's paintings were first exhibited is diametrically opposed to decent aesthetic standards; a work of art has no functional value when--as was the case Monday night--it occupies a forgotten place on the wall of a room containing some of the finest stuffed shirts...
Ivor Richards' first public appearance in the U. S. was in 1931 at Harvard, where he arrived straight from two years' teaching at Tsing Hua University, Peking. His rumpled clothes, backswept curls, glinting, slightly Oriental eyes and catching humor interested undergraduates, but what interested them more was his...
Thursday evening, with a few friends, reporters, some curious strangers, he listened to the balloting broadcast from Convention Hall. Mrs. Willkie had gone to the hall, disguised in a new wide-brimmed hat, a pair of dark glasses. Nervously the gentleman from Indiana rubbed his hands with a big handkerchief...