Word: oafishness
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...boorish reaction to the news might well remove all glamour from the escapade and make a return to Carvel seem an irresistible alternative. Not so for Kay Brannan. With a stubborn sweetness that does credit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's casting intuition, Kay Brannan goes about reforming her oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot: The Captain (Edgar Kennedy) of Dr. Dakin's yacht showing...
...drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed spectacles, mal-fitting collar, hunched shoulders. Looks overheated, corrugated, modest and oafish. A country-store type...
Sirs: . . . The letter printed in TIME, Feb. 28, under the caption "Ohio's Coal Bin" is no more than oafish drivel. Subscriber* Zweiger's confessed familiarity with the routine of sleeping off a debauch over Sunday doubtless explains why he has never met any of West Virginia's representative citizenship. His amazing inaccuracy is exemplified in his inference that the Ohio River was named for our excellent neighbor state to the north and west. The reverse is the case by nearly 200 years, bat what's 260 years to Mr. Zweiger...
...especially a new staff poet. . . . The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing in public without his breeches. ... It bears the Harvard name...
...this. The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more springly than oafish malice. And the ineptitude of this doggerel has marked all the Lampoon's effort this year...