Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current Senate's "investigating" record was defended by a testy, strutting Cyrano de Bergerac. "A great nose," the clown trumpeted through his own, "indicates a great Senate. . . . This convexity, this pimple of curiosity, this wart of circumspection, is indeed worthy of jest. I say these things about the Senate's nose lightly enough myself, but I shall allow none other to utter them...
...Barker was written by Kenyon Nicholson, young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer...
...Robert E. Sherwood, 70, oldest living circus clown, much impressed President Coolidge when he said that he was the first performer to turn a handspring over seven horses and two elephants. The President then replied that he used to rise, when a boy, at 2:30 a. m. so he could go to the circus. Mr. Sherwood retaliated with the presentation of the book of his life: Here We Are Again...
Minister of Education Stefan Raditch, obstreperous leader of the Croat Opposition, called by his enemies "the political ape-clown" (TIME, Oct. 25), sought once more to disrupt the Cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch last week by a wanton flamboyance...
...Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus...