Word: unwashedness
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The Met's decision was proof of its satisfaction at the 15-year-old Saturday matinee broadcast, which brings in $12,000 a week from Texaco, sponsor of the ABC airing. The Met also wanted to pay a compliment to an audience which may be undressed-or even unwashed...
Well-scrubbed people who catch scabies have one consolation: their itch is probably milder than the type that makes the unwashed scratch.
Now Critic Edmund Wilson has made a book of his friend's glittering, tragic life. It is in part a collection of essays, poems and letters written about Fitzgerald by his admirers (including Poets T. S. Eliot and John Peale Bishop, Critic Paul Rosenfeld, Novelist Wescott, John Dos Passos...
Mauldin jeeped for 36 hours to reach Patton's HQ, turned up scrubbed, shaved and saluting. Complained Patton: Mauldin's cartoons were playing hob with morale; not every soldier could wash and shave every day, but some who could didn't, just to look like Mauldin characters...
A column of Chamorros, the natives of Guam, came out of the murky, rain-drenched morning, their brown skins glistening with rain. Half-naked, hungry, unwashed, hundreds of them filed slowly from the wooded uplands. Solemnly they walked to the American trucks and "ducks" waiting to take them to an...