Word: lummox
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...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...
Thirteen years ago Kathryn Elizabeth Smith was an uninhibited 16-year-old lummox of a girl singing and doing the Charleston in Washington, D. C. amateur shows. Broadway Showman Eddie Dowling brought her to Manhattan as "Tiny Little" in Honeymoon Lane. During more than four years of Broadway (Hit the Deck, Flying High), the comics of the show business treated her to so many cruel fat-lady gags that finally, bitter and hurt, she packed and went home...
...Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted as saleswoman, waitress, has traveled steerage, visited Soviet Russia to get material. Long and often the recipient of editors' rejection-slips, she is now one of the best-paid writers in the U. S. Other books: Humoresque, Lummox, Appassionata, Mannequin, Five...
...Announcement that to help 25,000 idle actors, Author Louis Bromfield (The Green Bay Tree), Publisher Conde Nast, Novelist Fannie Hurst (Lummox), Dramatist Owen Davis (Icebound) would charge $15 the season to people who wanted to see their homes, themselves...
...Jacques S. (Fannie Hurst) Danielson, novelist (Humoresque, Lummox, A President is Born), told London newshawks that her most vivid impression of England was "the length and adequacy of the underwear displayed in the stores...