Word: bonehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There had not been such a howl from the bleachers since Fred ("Bonehead") Merkle failed to touch second base...
...American League pennants and seven world championships. But sometimes the owners had to worry about Joe. He was a chubby, jut-jawed fellow, quiet, a little distant, sometimes grumpy, the kind of manager who usually waited until next day, and the privacy of his office, to complain about a bonehead play...
...Army was about ready to give in and acknowledge one of the big bonehead plays of World War II. There was no longer any blinking the fact; the Canol oil project in the northern wastes of Canada was a resounding flop...
...previously spoken well of Blaze ("a most noble-looking dog") in her syndicated column, said she was shocked. Presidential Secretary Steve Early averred that it was all "a most regrettable combination of errors." A.T.C.'s Major General Harold L. George promised an investigation. Dallas' well-named Bonehead Club tried and failed to airmail a St. Bernard back to the White House. Many a plain U.S. citizen, ears ringing with the week's officially urgent pleas for more manpower, less unnecessary travel, etc., sat down to write an angry letter to his newspaper...
...bumpkin, he wandered about the streets of 19th-Century Vienna pathetically anxious to find anybody who liked his long, earnest, rather complicated symphonies. Practically nobody did. His contemporary, Johannes Brahms, hooted: "Bruckner's works immortal? It makes me laugh." Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner admired tremendously, considered him a bonehead and avoided his company. Few of his important works were published until the last years of his life...