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Word: clumsier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Miss Skinner's performance is deft and sure, she does not hog this show. With the exception of Philip Faversham, who is colossally unconvincing as the Reverend James' worshipping young assistant, the cast is excellent. John Cromwell is a sensitive and appealing Marchbanks; in clumsier hands Marchbanks can be clowned like a Tarkingtonian adolescent. Onslow Stevens as well as Cromwell has steered clear of extremes. His Morell id not too pompous and too fond of his own voice to be loved by Candida. And Dorothy Sands is the old-maid incarnate in the role of Miss Proserpine Garnett, Morell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...Viktor Barna, spry and handsome ping-pong player of Budapest: the world's championship, for the fifth year; after a close match against his clumsier countryman, Miklos Szabados, who injured his right hand by falling; in London. C. Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas runner: the Baxter Mile, feature event of the annual New York Athletic Club indoor track meet; in 4.09.8, with his two onetime rivals, Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron, 30 and 40 yards behind; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself with engineering the situation that brings everything off. He is a clumsy device on the stage; he is clumsier, because more explicit, in the written homily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Rack | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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