Word: oafish
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Anton Bruckner was born in the Austrian Tyrol in 1824, three years before the death of Beethoven. A great, hulking, oafish man with a huge beaked nose and the manners of a country bumpkin, he wandered about the streets of 19th-Century Vienna pathetically anxious to find anybody who liked his long, earnest, rather complicated symphonies. Practically nobody did. His contemporary, Johannes Brahms, hooted: "Bruckner's works immortal? It makes me laugh." Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner admired tremendously, considered him a bonehead and avoided his company. Few of his important works were published until the last years...
Like any other ground-bound aircraft, the big Lockheed Constellation looked oafish, brooding, clumsy. But the engineers and newsmen out to see its first flight eyed the newest four-engined U.S. transport plane with respect and the feeling that they might be looking at a figure of the post-war future...
...successful, it may result in a few cracked heads and the appearance of the oafish Cambridge police who glory in any opportunity to use a stick on a Harvardman. If unsuccessful, it may merely result in a parade of visits to the Dean's office...
...famed Idle Hour Farm, who took over the old course in 1925, turned it into a show place. The Colonel built up the New Orleans Handicap purse to $50,000 - the U. S.'s richest winter stake. Those brave days lasted seven years. Then Louisiana's oafish dictator, Huey Long, decided it was time for Bradley to go. Up went the Fair Grounds' real-estate assessment to prohibitive heights, and out went the Colonel...
...help it and likes to rest his brain with carpentry in the Hartswick basement. He did not think up all the Old Gold rebuses himself, but he passed on all 90 of them as submitted by a staff of word-wanglers before they were converted into oafish little wash drawings for the series. The thing was managed so that only Puzzleman Hartswick knew all the right answers...