Word: misshapen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Raftery and Hilaria were married, with a street woman and a beggar to witness; and Raftery spared the Welshman of his dagger when the cringing misshapen scoundrel would have spread the past like a blight over the newly wed couple. They went out upon the open roads to County Mayo; and when she made her confessional, telling of her eagle heart and her childhood's hard usage, Great Raftery laid aside his harp and caught...
...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...
...tender, sympathetic fantasy of a shellshocked, misshapen War cripple, and a homely little governess, thrown into each other's company and finding each other beautiful by looking through the rosy spectacles of love. May McAvoy is equally effective with Barthelmess in revealing beauty of the soul by other means than a mere change in makeup...
...scene represents the end of Man's career, reflecting the utter confusion that attends his downfall. The two windows now twisted drunkenly stand out in silver draped with large swirling folds of blue gauze. A bed, oddly out of proportion, is seen in silhouette at the left, with a misshapen fireplace to the right, the whole combination reflecting to a remarkable degree the mood in which the play closes...
...continue to be of a poor quality. As for the propagandists--for the merely thoughtless, a careful reading of Elyot and Ascham; for the purely selfish--discharge. An education which bends the twig to its own will-be it wholesome or not--can only result in a forest of misshapen trunks...