Word: malaproping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father, Sir Anthony Absolute, a gouty tyrant who would make his son marry a one-eyed witch if the marriage portion were large enough. There's Jack's plegmatic friend, Faulkland, devoted to the beautiful Julia but always devising schemes to test her love. And there's Mrs. Malaprop, possessing a strong pretension for elegant loquation but always misconcerting her vocabularly...
...nose, and there he stands, punching wildly and wondering why he isn't hitting anybody. But as a comedian Jimmy is not in the least confused: he is the master of a style much subtler than it seems. Superficially, he is merely a matchless Mr. Malaprop -who but Jimmy could describe an elephant as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" and really seem to mean it? But look deeper. His comedy is grounded in an innocence as perfect as a baby's-or a saint's. Not since the late Harry Langdon of the silent days has the screen shown...
...only funny by fidgets, but lip-curling Hermione Gingold, looking like Nero somewhat past his prime, does small comic wonders in the role of a born vulgarian with cultural longings, and the mayor of River City, Paul Ford, runs amusingly off at the mouth as a kind of Mr. Malaprop...
Died. Harry Balogh, 70, boxing's "Marquis of Malaprop," whose bullhorn ring announcements rattled U.S. stadiums for some 35 purple years; following surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime bellhop from the Lower East Side, Balogh brought "class" to his profession by introducing the soup-and-fish and the comparative adjective (his variation on the ungrammatical "best-man-win" theme: "May the better participant emerge triumphant"), in 1935 capped a lifelong battle against race hate by imploring an inflamed crowd at the Primo Carnera-Joe Louis bout: "Leave us all view this contest without anchor or prejudism...