Word: slouching
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...George blanch, Woodrow Wilson freeze, and Clemenceau laugh. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was born a Welshman, but ten years as a knockabout laborer in Australia had made him as indigenous as a kangaroo. When he became Australia's World War I Prime Minister, the Anzacs draped a big slouch hat around his pint-sized head, dubbed him "Little Digger...
...peace.") To bolster its just-folks plot, the movie throws in a couple of production numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies, in which Rogers starred. But it is in Will Rogers Jr.'s performance that his father comes most alive on the screen: the familiar slouch with hands jammed in pockets, the unruly forelock, the sheepish grin, the shambling wisecracks delivered in his famous gumchewing drawl...
Pirandello may never quite reach his father's stature in his chosen field, but no one can call him a slouch. His paintings now sell for from $300 to $600 apiece, and Rome's art critics treat him with respect. Wrote // Tempo's Virgilio Guzzu "He has a personal impact of his own . . . You may accept or refuse the painter Pirandello . . . but you cannot . . . ignore...
...ancient walled city of Hue in central Viet Nam, a TIME correspondent last week watched barefooted Vietnamese peasants standing in the General Issue line with mouldy rifle straps, long underwear and heavy shoes dangling from their arms. Across the square, twelve-week recruits drilled with precision, their slouch hats at a jaunty angle...
...nostalgic group of Hoosiers in Boston caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...