Word: unwashedness
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At 15, Bierce fled the family farm and the "unwashed savages," as he later called his parents, worked as a printer's devil for two years. When the Civil War broke out, he was among the first to enlist. Soldier Bierce did well; he served bravely at Shiloh and...
More Unwashed Savages. He slashed at parsons ("bladder-headed sky-pilots") and their flocks: "It is gratifying to observe idiots crowding forward to be instructed in ignorance." He jeered at fraternal organizations ("The Improved Order of Flatheads"), composed A Rational Anthem ("My country, 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of...
Yalemen were way behind Harvardmen at gulping goldfish in the late '30s, but last week they were in the van of the latest undergraduate seizure: the Dirty Shirt Club. The idea is simple. Each club member puts up $10, takes turns at wearing the same unwashed pink cotton shirt...
Martin Merchant, long unwashed, his red beard tangled with sweat and dust, sat on a can of mortar ammunition and savored a cup of C-ration coffee. Three flies took swan dives into the coffee. Merchant looked at them philosophically. "You're not going to drink that stuff now...
When the curtain went up in the same Théátre des Champs-Elysées, remnants of the Parisian elite, teen-aged American fans, and unwashed philosophers from St.-Germain-des-Prés saw a dark-eyed, intense little dancer in a clinging, stone-colored gown standing...