Word: ugliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judges waited eagerly, hoping that Mrs. Rosie Bevan (nee Wilmot) would put in an appearance. Mrs. Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
...they berated the noted sculptor, C. S. Jagger, for having produced "a monument which will be interpreted as a glorification of war." Sir Ian Hamilton, onetime (1901-02) Chief-of-Staff to Lord Kitchener, spoke for many when he said, quoting the late Marquis Curzon: "To my mind, the ugliest thing in the world is a gun, with one exception only-the howitzer. The howitzer resembles a toad squatting and ready to spit fire out of its mouth. Nothing more hideous could be conceived...
...knows more about graduate opinion on the subject. Some of the suggested products are curious. A university chapel, to supplant the present Appleton Chapel, for instance. Appleton Chapel is a monument of the '50s. With no disrespect to its worthy founder, it is one of the bleakest and ugliest buildings ever raised by the hand of man. Possibly, however, undergraduate esthetic feeling toward it has been softened since the compulsory huddling of students at too early hours was abolished. It can't be destroyed, it seems. Possibly, if it stands 100 or 200 years longer, it may acquire architectural merit...