Word: oaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clod ye oaf ye moron ye imbecile...
...when a seedy character who called himself Edward Herbert sidled backstage at Paramount and said he could fix things so that Morros Sr. would get his hampers. After the wheedling and finagling came the bullying, and Morros found himself being hectored by "Herbert," now a foul-mouthed drunken oaf called Zubilin, who said he was boss of the NKVD...
True to the Front Page stereotype, Jimmy Richardson's salty hide has never wholly concealed the sugar-cured ham inside. Says one old Examiner hand: "He's half oaf, half elf." One of the greatest thrills in his life was when Author (and longtime friend) Harlan Ware wrote a movie about four-times-married Richardson (Come, Fill the Cup), dedicated it to the "Last of the Terrible Men." And after swearing off liquor himself (he has not had a drink in 20 years), City Editor Richardson helped many another capable newsman fight his way out of the bottle...
...take King Solomon sitting on a problem of child custody to straighten out this sordid little tangle-and he is exactly the genius invoked to turn the trick. As soon as Malcolm mentions the story of Solomon and the two mothers to his father, Bing realizes what a covetous oaf he has been, agrees to share the boy with Mary. This is all for the best because Crosby now has Inger...
...production is not without its good points: the cinema's Nancy Olson is almost as engaging as she is attractive, and Tom Ewell, though at times the quivering slave of direction, has always the wonderful look of an oaf with charm or a camel with problems. But too often the play-overlong to begin with-tends to spell out every last word where it should not even finish the sentences...