Word: clumsiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what was perhaps the clumsiest piece of buck-passing ever perpetrated, Police Commissioner Timilty last Friday traced Boston's juvenile delinquency back to the "Dean End Kids." Mr. Timilty's statement, which was made following the daring capture of five 13-year-old members of the Green Hornet Gang, deplored "the harm these pictures are doing to young minds," and ended on a note of despair: "There is nothing the police can do about them...
...only scholarships open to him were for instruction on 1) the trombone, 2) the bassoon, 3) the string bass. As the least of three evils, young Koussevitzky chose the bull fiddle (string bass). So expert did he become that eventually he toured Europe as a soloist on this clumsiest of instruments, was widely hailed as the world's No. 1 bull fiddler...