Word: lummox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fannie Hurst, high-styled writer of highly excited novels (Humoresque, Lummox), was out $5, but it could have been worse. New Yorker Fannie, briefly in Dallas, jaywalked through a traffic light and got stopped by a cop. As he made out a ticket he asked her name. She refused to tell ("didn't like his attitude," she explained later). She wanted to talk to the chief. When Fannie and the cop got to the station house, 1) the chief was "unavailable," and 2) she learned that she would give her name and pay $5 or go to jail...
...George Abbott) is another of those youthful musical frolics (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) for which Producer Abbott has become famous-and a little fatiguing. This one's locale is the University of Minnesota, and its line-up includes a fraternity run like a clip joint, a lummox of a football star, a pinhead of a society student, a sourball of a professor, a strident campus Communist, and a freshman hero (Billy Redfield) who is mauled by coeds and made president of the Student Council...
...special Mary Lou Williams composition, "Lovely Lummox," the bespectacled Mr. Hall stood behind the microphone between the piano and the trumpet, his pate and fingernails vying for prominence in the brilliance of the spot light, and while the drummer's arms wildly flailed a quivering tropical tom tom, delivered himself of chorus after chorus of crying, impassioned music. He hits the notes on the edge, punching them out hoarsely and exuberantly, soaring up and down in a rapid shuffle rhythm; but the old majestic grandeur, characteristic of those of his profession who were trained where the Mississippi spills into...
...homely rush. Tactful but frank, Fitzgerald & Willis let the ladies discuss their own drawbacks, are always hopeful even when confronted with a clock-stopping face. Typical guinea-pig comment: "I hate to be homely. My mother's good-looking . . . and it makes me feel like such a lummox...