Word: oaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palooka (Reliance) derives its name from ringside slang for a low-grade prizefighter. Its story hangs around a pudgy young oaf (Stuart Erwin) who takes up with a fretful, excitable boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) and demonstrates that he cannot fight. Though he manages to knock down a champion (William Cagney, brother of James) who is in his cups, though he importantly squires a night club artist (Lupe Velez). Joe Falooka eventually takes a thorough mauling in the ring. This sends him back to a chicken farm where his mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has wanted...
...England had fallen gave Dr. Keble sound reason for his diatribes. On Easter Day, 1800, the Lord Bishop of London had reported there were only six communicants in St. Paul's Cathedral. Elsewhere, conditions in the Church of England continued worse. Many a rural clergyman was a lazy oaf, neglectful of baptisms and communions. The font in many a church was cluttered with debris, the altar a rickety table on which the minister tossed his greatcoat and riding crop...
...wrestling match, proposing to her during a flying mare. Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema. He is too ugly to be a hero, too lumbering to be a comedian, too much of a numbskull and oaf to be a villain. He is, in short, a character actor and like most character actors he usually winds up (in the parlance of the type he customarily impersonates) behind the eight-ball.* In The Champ Wallace Beery was a sad superannuated pugilist. In Flesh he is a German wrestler named Polikai...
Some of them: A Herculean Russian oaf starves his way to the U. S., falls into the clutches of a crooked wrestling manager, tastes glory briefly...