Word: shapelessly
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...look so much like Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt) untrimmed. his clothes torn and soiled. Yet he held his shoulders square, marched with head high past the clicking cameras. Fat old Carlos Mendieta. one eye swollen shut, slumped behind him, a dirty yellow slicker drooping from his shoulders, a shapeless felt hat squashed on his head. Just as he approached the waiting automobile he looked up with bleary eyes and delivered himself of one complete, soul-satisfying expletive. "Carrrajo!" swore Colonel Mendieta and drove off to jail...
...wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft to be recut...
Parried Conservative Walker: "It has been reserved for the so-called Modernists to be irritated at any resemblance to anything that has calm, and to adore excess in every direction, to be shapeless, crude, eliminated in detail to nothingness, explosive in detail to chaos . . . creating sensation with the slapstick and the bludgeon. Modernism may change the methods of architecture, but when it does it will necessarily have in it traditions of sound previous methods, with which at present it is in conflict ... at times infantile and often callow. . . . Occasionally it reaches a serious adult stage. Therefore Hope is struggling...
...with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
...lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave...