Word: slouchingly
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Into Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art strolled a shy young woman wearing flat shoes, high woolen socks, a dark blue slouch hat with brim pulled down, a dark blue coat. Busily unpacking Italian art masterpieces from the Golden Gate International Exposition were museum employes. Because flustered Allen Porter of the museum staff recognized equally flustered Greta Garbo, the film star saw the pictures a day before critics...
...slouch hat sidled up to a drugstore counter, cast a furtive look about him and beckoned to the druggist. "Say, Bud, I have a young man assisting me on the road. ... He tells me that he has a burning sensation, a sort of continual discharge...
Coach Mikkola's face was ruddier and happier than over under his customary gray slouch hat on the side-lines Saturday. Bill Neufeld was smiling too. The prospects even this early in the season are not half as gloomy as Mikkola forecast after Christmas...
...1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey (pronounced obee) Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride, a Virginia girl named Elizabeth Riley, whose family had some Cherokee blood. Billy walked with a sidewise slouch. Even after he was rich he was "an ornery-dressin' fella." He often went to Nashville "wearin' no more than five dollars worth of clothes." Elizabeth was tall, dark, sweet-eyed. Their first home was a sheephouse; their first furniture some chestnut stumps for table and chairs; their first bed Elizabeth's riding-skirt filled with rushes...
Statesman Sadler won in a walk-away with his slogan: "Sadler in the Saddle." He now shares top place on the mighty Railroad Commission with its once all-powerful Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who is no slouch on slogans himself. Col. Thompson is gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...