Word: oaf
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...group, often even benefited by lack of previous experience, fulfils every qualification. "The Last Chance" differs from its many predecessors not because it is trying to say something but because it succeeds is getting a great deal beyond a feeble waving of the studio copy of the Americas flag. oaf...
Menuhin has often been accused of stylizing his performance to provide a better display of his virtuoso technique, but here no such criticism can be offered, for his presentation contains the proper lyric and melodic qualities without the affectation which detracted from his playing of the late Mozart sonatas. oaf...
Arpad is the last word in newspaper birds. He cavorts in the New York World-Telegram's weather stories, has become one of the big town's richest chuckles. A happy combination of oaf and genius, he is a blithe and silly little rooster, and the stories in which he appears have a cock eyed quality and an underlying mood of ennui. Samples...
...title story (which last year won her the O. Henry Memorial Prize) an oaf, assisted by a doctor, four children and an assortment of primitives, drags a river for his supposedly drowned wife, and is made (he occasion for creating some wonderfully suggestive images of the whole of existence. But he is never, even incidentally, a man looking for the corpse of his wife...
...wisecracky sayings of two simply drawn cartoon characters who appear in the magazine regularly and through whom Publisher Délano voices his own opinions. One is a bearded, elongated intellectual known as "Professor Topaze." The other is a shoeless, runty, ragged but usually grinning oaf called "Juan Verdejo." He represents Chile's lower classes, is so well known that all over Chile his name has come to be used much as "John Q. Public" is used...