Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standing by the pool snickering at a brawny tub-of-guts who looks like Bully Boy Brewster. A bony oaf on the springboard is telling a dirty joke to a bald-headed codger with a pot belly. Goggle-eyed boosters paddle about in the pool or rub their misshapen haunches with towels. Near the showers is a scales for them to weight themselves...
...moment of silence--then the crowd realized what this misshapen form had done. The fist marshall of the class jumped forward, Come on now, fellows, a long cheer for Hollisheimer...
...birthdays as day of special grace for her. She let him wander naked, and herself too, beneath "the unastonished trees." Socrates, she felt, and many another sage, would have approved; her contemporaries "would rather face their God with naked souls than naked bodies," being disease-ridden, blotched and misshapen. She freed her boy from fear of the dark and the forest. She resolved, in one of the old fashioned phrases so fresh on her pen, to urge him out of the nest that he may learn...
Cities shall no longer spring up like amorphous patches of skunk cabbage, misshapen, loutish, by every tuppeny estuary or frail river. The growth must be directed intelligently if the U. S. is to avoid such "atrocities" in city-planning as its present metropoleis. "New York," declaired Robert W. DeForest, "is the world most horrible example. . . ." Boston, planned like a squatter's settlement, cannot recover good form for less than $50,000,000. Washington and Philadelphia, braced in infancy are straighter And the city of the future...
Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...