Word: lunk
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...drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house and hollers yoo-hoo. After 20 hours in the trunk, the hero escapes, recaptures the car, on the way home stops for gas. But it isn't just a gas station; it's a car-wash...
...good-looking but sort of dumb. He takes it on the lam to Paris in a stolen car, falls asleep at the wheel, cracks up, and hides out in a shack on the outskirts of Paris. There he is discovered by the neighborhood bum (Pierre Brasseur), a charming, aging lunk who drinks all night, sleeps till noon, lives off his ancient, hardworking mother, and sulks because nobody loves...
Several weeks later they were married, but the marriage did not turn out to be what the doctor ordered. Milton was all set to live it up, but his wife proved to be an almost pathological stinge. Milt was a low-born lunk who still crossed his knife and fork on the plate when he finished his dinner, but his wife was the sort of girl who lusted after little French restaurants, where the soup tastes "like a prism," and she was always happy to tell him what Whistler had said to Oscar Wilde. She teased his tastes ("Does...
...Come here, you big lunk!" shouted the head keeper few minutes later. Blood dripping from his single tusk, Wally padded over to the fence, let one hind foot be chained. But when the brave keeper attempted to chain his front feet, Wally swept the man's straw hat into his mouth, crunched, spat out the pieces. The front feet remained unchained...
That inimitable lunk, Mayor John P. O'Brien, who combines the effrontery of a lamp-post with the insouciance of a glassy-eyed codfish will leave New York the poorer for his passing, not only in the crassly material sense, but spiritually as well. For Honest John has in his own good way lightened the gloom of the morbidly shaded metropolis with the steady beam of a courage which has faced without flinching the unleashed terrors of double negatives, redundant participles, and hopelessly severed infinitives. Before the onslaught of mad sentences without verbs and facts without relevance his head remains...