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Word: oaf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes them on for practice sessions of football or basketball. On the show itself. Ozzie's character lacks the overhead drive and adding-machine efficiency that he displays in real life. As in most other TV family dramas. Ozzie is pictured as a lovable but rather silly oaf who needs rescuing from untenable positions by his sweet, understanding wife and his tolerant children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Great Competitor | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...problem boils down to this--when Sam Anybody says he went to Schenectady Normal, well, that's where he went, that's all. When Sam Somebody says he went to Harvard, that makes him a supercilious oaf who goes around telling everybody that he's Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CODDLING THE CRUEL WORLD | 5/20/1953 | See Source »

...cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis. Don Taylor, Richard Erdman, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves and Co-Author Trzcinski himself play P.W.s. Robert Strauss repeats his stage role as Animal, a big, hairy oaf who lumbers around in long winter underwear dreaming out loud about-Betty Grable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 18, 1953 | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...Walters (the heroine, the "I" of the novel), Adrienne Corri (the beautiful girl who scores for a time over the plain girl--who, thank Renoir, is in fact plain), and Radha (the half-caste). But essentially this is a director's and not an actor's picture, and most oaf the credit must go to Renoir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/28/1951 | See Source »

...transforms another just-folks radio family into a daytime TV show. The Fosters come equipped with a whimsical father, a lovable but levelheaded Mom, and a lackwit, adolescent son, all working as background for daughter Judy (Pat Crowley). The plot throws Judy in love with an oaf named Oogie, supplies her with boundless opportunities to pout, indulge in temper tantrums and end nearly every scene in a drugstore, where a finger-pointing clerk urges viewers to stock up on Sponsor McKesson & Robbins' products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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