Word: lout
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...Australian tennis zealots turn out by the thousands, even for minor tournaments. And they would no more think of repressing their natural partisanship than a crowd of U.S. baseball fans. A visiting American can expect to have his court errors lustily cheered, can count on cries of "Lout!" and "Mug!" if he shows temper or disgruntlement...
Horrible Higgins. He arrived, says a fellow student, as "a great lout of a fellow with a North Country accent, who couldn't find his hat because he was sitting on it." But when Laughton began to recite, he ceased to be a figure of fun: he held the room spellbound. For his portrayal of Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion, he won the academy's highest award. Shaw dropped in on one rehearsal and commented: "Young man, you were horrible as my Higgins, but nothing will stop you from getting to the top of the tree...
...story called Green Thoughts, for instance, a flower fancier is devoured by his pet orchid and converted into a huge blossom in his own likeness. In his new shape, he is recognized by a resentful nephew, and efficiently hacked to pieces by the lout, who rather enjoys the flower's screams. In Thus I Refute Beelzy, a father refuses to believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings...
...cracks when her long-forgotten husband, Marvin Macy, comes back. A lazy, flashy lout, he quickly has Cousin Lymon following him like a puppy. A showdown has to come, and it does: Miss Amelia fights Marvin Macy with her fists, is on the way to winning when, at the last minute, Cousin Lymon leaps in like a demon, on Macy's side. Then the two men leave, after wrecking Miss Amelia's piano, her cabinet of curios and her still...
...quick succession he got fat parts in Maxwell Anderson's short-lived Truckline Cafe, Katharine Cornell's production of Candida and Ben Hecht's A Flag Is Born. In 1947, he found himself an overnight Broadway sensation as the brutish lout of a husband in A Streetcar Named Desire. He is still not certain that he fully "succeeded in some aspects of the part," in spite of the fact that one critic called him "our theater's most memorable young actor at his most memorable...