Word: slobs
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...flurry; she flits. I am sturdy; you are stout; he is a slob...
Manuela (Judy Garland), engaged to a fat slob of a Caribbean mayor (Walter Slezak), is sure that a wandering mountebank (Gene Kelly) is the man of her daydreams, a pirate, legendary for dash and gallantry. Even when she learns that the actual pirate is the slob (retired), she sticks by the mountebank. When last seen, they're both clowning away to their hearts' content...
...ignoring the feeble bleats of ushers who kept trying to tell these jerks that one doesn't do that sort of thing . . . in a sardine box like the National [Theater], I tried to find the fireman assigned to the house to suggest [that he] haul some well-dressed slob ... up to night court. But he wasn't around. Maybe he was backstage getting an autograph...
Already known as Lippy, young Leo Durocher insolently replied: "Yeah? Listen, you big slob, I've got a brain. All you got is a strong back. We'll see who stays in the big leagues the longest." Durocher was thrown off the gentlemanly Yankees, bounced in Cincinnati, and came down to earth in St. Louis with the famed Gashouse Gang (Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean and Frankie Frisch...
Swell Guy (Mark Hellinger; Universal-International) is a full-length portrait of a slob (Sonny Tufts). He is a famed, chaotically incompetent war correspondent who can fool practically everybody in the postwar world except his fellow reporters, his mother and, in rare, lucid moments, himself...