Word: oaf
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...eruption of molten lava. At times, March seems to take an actorish delight in playing the Lord, but he is awesome when, with magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust. Douglas Campbell can be a simple-minded oaf one minute and a Judaic Henry V the next, and his voice ranges even more remarkably from a love-lyrical caress to a doggish snarl. At one affecting moment, he says simply, "O, I love thee, Lord," and it is like hearing ineffable music carried on clear night air over still water...
...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...