Word: bumbler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence piled up against him. In the Post's more recent anti-Nixon efforts, largely aimed at Nixon's use of the subversion issue as a political weapon, Graham has had to restrain Herblock. In his Republican gallery (Ike as a perplexed boob; Dulles, a smug bumbler; Wilson, a predatory capitalist), the cartoonist began drawing Nixon as a heavily stubbled, bestial figure resembling the famous Herblock caricature of Joe McCarthy. Graham sternly ordered Herblock to shave the Vice President. "Nixon is not McCarthy," he scolded, "no matter what else you may think...
Stupid he is then, but obviously a kindly, well-meaning old bumbler, spreading joy as best he knows how. Yet only last week, during a jurisdictional dispute between two labor unions in Toledo, Ohio, Claus was incarcerated in jail on the basis of his "previous criminal record" (The Toledo Blade, December 9). This would appear to be damning, but can we not say charitably in this season of love that the previous record of fault was a wild oat carelessly sown and repented? After all, how many beneficent builders of the nation's libraries, hospitals, and universities have buried their...
...cast, only David Black in the title role and Alan Miller as the curate really managed to transcend their parts. They were the charlatan and the bumbler,, two types always showered with the gems of Gilbert's word-patterns, and they carried to the audience the spriteliness that is necessary for a true appreciation of the operetta. Mary Bartlett as the heroine and Yolanda Lyons as her mother sang forcefully, but David Shapiro, the "hero," was unfortunately rendered almost inaudible every time the orchestra climbed above mezzoforte, wihch it did often...
...Personally a "good guy" with good intentions and reasonable opinions, Venizelos is one of the world's best bridge players. But as a political leader he has been largely ineffectual, i.e., a bumbler...
U.P.A.'s plans call for full-length treatment of a collection of James Thurber stories (half live, half animation), Ben Jonson's Volpone, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Meanwhile, half the company's shorts will feature a nearsighted bumbler named Mr. Magoo. Little Gerald's talents are too specialized for many other stories, but in its own way, his "Boing!" may prove as resounding as the first peep out of Mickey Mouse...