Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college of hemen. He developed the famed Outing Club, made Dartmouth a power in intercollegiate sports, introduced a new system of selection whereby freshmen were picked not only for brains but for all-round ability. In the '20s, Dartmouth men were the prototype of U.S. collegians-prankish, studiously unkempt, boisterous at football games, busy with campus activities, scornful of esthetes...
...Boston newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment...
...Charles Littel, President of Bergen Junior College, fresh from a visit to Harvard University, told the Ridgefield Park High School P. T. A. last night that the sight of unshaven, unkempt men studying there only strengthened his belief in co-educational institutions of learning...
...they hadn't. After every war the U. S. has fought, it has disassembled its fighting machine, on the theory that there would be no more wars. Result is that most U. S. wars have been fought wastefully (with unnecessary loss of life) and "heroically" (inefficiently) by bungling, unkempt armies. Exception was World War I, where the A. E. F. gave a good account of itself. But even then, to get a U. S. army into the field as a fighting unit took 16 months, and only the Allies' ability to hold the Germans gave a small corps...
...corrupt U. S. cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...