Word: shapelessness
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...snobbery over having his ancestral home occupied by a bunch of "elderly . . . slightly deformed [school] mistresses" dressed in wartime "utility non-crease . . . ready-made dresses of a kind of fine sacking in shades of puce [and] dirty tomato'' -to say nothing of the Cockney girls "in shapeless purple flannel blazers [and] pudding-bowl grey felt hats." The Squire and his family wondered what the world was coming to. "Poor Harefield is practically in the hands of the Jews," muttered the Belton son-&-heir. "There won't be a single gentleman in the Cabinet in five years," groused...
...defender of the divine right of rulers, as an organ of democratic society, Pius XII was at lengthy pains to make plain that by democracy he did not mean Communism: "[The State] should in practice be the organic and organizing unity of a real people. The people and the shapeless multitude (or as it is called the masses) are two distinct concepts. The people lives and moves of its own life energy. . . . The masses, on the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside, an easy plaything in the hands of anyone who exploits their instincts...
...About all that was left," cabled TIME Correspondent William W. White, "were the silent vehicles and the burned, twisted bodies. Through the orchards a few horses wandered, nosing their dead harnessmates. A handful of Canadian and Polish officers picked their way through the wreckage, stepping carefully over shapeless lumps of men who had been killed by the barrage, then smashed into the mud by drivers trying to get out of the trap...
...according Mildred the kudos of "the greatest popular songbird in the U.S.," thanks. For describing her voice as "small," her large but not unattractive figure as shapeless, for sending eight, great, productive Bailey years into the limbo of obscurity, shame...
...from Prince George, B.C. flew provincial police, to begin a vigil at outpost fur sales. Soon an Indian tried to sell 16 marten pelts which had been cured not as Indians cure them, shapeless and wrinkled, but the white man's way, long and smooth. Police arrested 22-year-old Alex Prince, charged him with the double murder...