Word: slouch
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...spring of his walk as he enters a room. It is' noticeable in the flash-like speed in which he moves from sitting to striding in the middle of an interview. It is noticeable in a meeting when, with youthful effortlessness, he swings from a low slouch (pressure on third lumbar) to bolt upright...
...Vincent ("Impy") Impellitteri celebrated his 27th wedding anniversary by posing behind a double-deck cake with his wife Betty, and bussing her in a manner that would do him no harm in the city's forthcoming free-for-all mayoralty contest. That done, he and Betty, herself no slouch at politics, went off to the next event: opening up a "Women for Impy" headquarters...
...match of the day will pit the Crimson's number one player, Johnny Rauh, against sophomore Doc Houk. The former Andover and Bruin freshman star was the outstanding player at Brown last year and has improved on the circuit over the summer. But Rauh, no slouch himself, is rated...
Under the elderly slouch, the authentic Nash stance is still evident. It is that of a poet who has provoked so many chuckles by stating good sense in metrical nonsense that many readers have never paused to appraise the discipline, economy and pungency of the Nash poem at its best. One of the best in this collection is The Visit. Here, in two dozen lines, is the whole armor of Ogden Nash-the sardonic side glance, the aptly distorted word, the poised cold shoulder, the burial of victims in clichés of their own choosing...
...Always the Young Strangers, his autobiography, Sandburg, now 75, remembers his departure thus: "I walked out of the house with my hands free, no bag or bundle, wearing a black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...