Word: goof
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some faint hints of realistic rustic meanness and kindliness. It also has moments of innocently ribald energy which may not be wholly authentic to the backwoods, but are pretty good as lively, half-demented comedy. Against its bits of honest humor, MacMurray's portrait of a stock Hollywood goof and Miss Colbert's skilled smirking over situations which might better have been played straight look flashily flimsy and false. The picture has a lot of fun in it, but it will be most amusing to those who are content to smirk...
...night Edwin hears strange music and is irresistibly drawn to a certain bridge in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. There, his brother's white-tied ghost rises from the water, and jazzily explains to the learned goof that Buzzy, star witness in a gangster murder, has been bumped off. The scholar, his double, must replace him at the Pelican, play upon the superstitious sensibilities of his killers, avenge his death by placing his fatal information in the hands of the D.A. (Otto Kruger). Just to help out in hard places, such as impersonating a great floorshow star when...
...Goof...
Never have I read such a funny story, and I've fished for steelhead (and caught a few) in Oregon and Northern California. I have yet to see anyone using "walnut-sized gobs of goof" for bait and a "fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait." Sounds" too much like cleaning a stopped sewer...
Well-Well-Laid Goof. Besides a postman's disregard for weather a steelheader needs a pitcher's eye. He must cast 100 ft. and more, often laying his goof within a foot of snags. His fingers must be sensitive and quick. A steelhead does not strike: he nudges the line as gently as a minnow. The expert recognizes the split second to jerk his rod and sink the hook. Then the whole river seems to explode...