Word: unkempt
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...affairs and drives her to drink. The only warm-hearted character in the book is Jim O'Neill, who suffers as he watches his children being taken by relatives, suf fers more as he watches his dark-eyed, high-spirited little wife turn into the shouting, snarling, unkempt Lizz...
Only a very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than...
...windows of J. J. Gillespie's art store, his lusty satires "attracted such crowds that one could hardly get along the street." Artist Blythe turned them all over to Gillespie's, got a permanent drawing account in return, never took more than $5 at a time. Unkempt, red-whiskered, hard-drinking and contemptuous of his new popularity, he was brusque with leading citizens, ran off to be a camp follower during the Civil War, died...
...answer is Yes! Indeed she does notice! She never fails to remark unkempt finger-nails, baggy trousers, or discords in color combinations. She is just as critical of the college man's shortcomings as he is of her periodical flights into the nightmares of fad-land...
...critic, able to expound and defend the Revelation of God." Bancroft was not so uncritically enthusiastic as his predecessors had been. Ticknor had written that there was more "absolute learning in Germany than in all the rest of the world besides." But Bancroft was too fastidious to find the unkempt German students congenial, agreeing with the sentiments of Longfellow's mother, who wrote her son when he contemplated a period of study abroad that, from all accounts, the Goettingen students were "very licentious, unrestrained by the government, and addicted to duclling." The professors too, in Bancroft's opinion, were anything...