Word: lummox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no one I'd rather see licked than that lummox," said the holder of a ringside seat ($22.50) as Jack Sharkey climbed through the ropes last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, to fight "Honest John" Risko, Cleveland "rubber man." Experts had picked Sharkey. So had gamblers. Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach...
Professor Adam could hardly feel encouraged or complimented by your article, nor do we double up in excruciating joy to learn that we are musically a lummox...
...funny that the stupidity of this, his second effort, is acutely painful. The comedy is supposed to flow from the well-intentioned blunder of a hero so nitwitful that he pays $300 for a broken-down taxi on a rainy night. Marion Nixon is cute, opposite Edward Everett Horton, lummox...
...Montana, generally considered by the world as musically a lummox, an adventurous organization has played clearly enough for one or two of its flute notes to echo across the badlands, the prairies, and on into the grand chateaux of Art in civilized regions to the Eastward...
...elder daughters, Fanny and Kate, married off fairly early, are relatively unimportant save for one unforgettable portrait of Kate's choice, whose trousers are always so long that they adopt a "concertina effect" around his ankles. Lena, the fourth daughter, seems faintly reminiscent of Fannie Hurst's Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29)-a large, silent girl who moVes monosyllabically through the story and a length marries a rattle-brained young artist...