Word: shapelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the bouncy, bumpy Roedean Girl became a national byword, as British as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, and the butt of music-hall skits. She wore a bright-colored, shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...
Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...
Marika Rivera, another little-noted daughter of a much-noted man, also got her picture in the papers (see cut). A dancer, the shapely offspring of shapeless Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, she turned up on the Riviera, got a little nonsensical publicity by trying on the shoulder pads of a footballer on the U.S. Air Forces all-star team...
...something went wrong with Joe and his vision. In spite of his nightly visitation, he was still just a shabby little boy in a shapeless sweater. He grew sullen and peevish. When photographers took his picture he sometimes grinned and postured, but sometimes he kicked them in the shins or tried to tear up their film. He was not always kind to the people, ill or maimed, who sought his help; once he shouted to a roomful of them: "Get out of here...
...getting somewhat swelled-headed from all the bouquets handed out to us now by a few of the returned G.I.s. We never really believed we were as devastatingly beautiful as our ex-boyfriends (the line-shooters) made out, but we did not realize we were "weather-beaten, shapeless, etc." We would like to see a photograph of Sergeant Jay G. Bundenthal and judge if we would have endured him in the interim, during which, from our personal experience, G.I.s were only too glad to go out with "shapeless" English girls. . . . [16 ATS GIRLS...