Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey head of Founder Long. When the suing bondholders labeled one of the company's moves to obtain bank loans as fraudulent, it was too much. In his wide-eyed old Fierce-Arrow touring car (1923 model) he hurried down to court. Wear- ing a worn suit and shapeless shoes, spry old Robert Long told his tale with a grim smile. For leading his organization into Northwest timber he showed no regret...
...rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily...
...Guest Room brings to the stage one of the most consistently detestable females it has ever seen. Charlotte ("Aunt Lottie") Powers (Helen Lowell) is an aging, shapeless creature with tiny bird-like eyes and more nose than chin. She lives in guest rooms, directs households, antagonizes servants, soon becomes mistress of any house in which she lives. Hints that she leave she studiously ignores; when told she must go, she breaks down and cries. Mrs. Fairley got rid of her by dying, Mrs. Martin (Beverly Sitgreaves) by leaving, Janet Simms (Joan Kenyon) by foisting her off on an unsuspecting friend...
...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...