Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Stravinsky's 28-year-old epic about the lovelorn clown, still tops in modern ballet scores, gets its first complete (and a brilliant) recording...
Born. To Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka...
...bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites Porter's Mite and Impound had fought it out indeed, but for third...
Supporters of the law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Constitution were led by Reps. Sawyer and McCready. They were abetted by Rep. Wenzler of Boston, often called "the clown of the legislature," who roared: "Some of these professors when they get to 65 or 70--their brains are cracked." Wenzler himself is almost...
...centre of conflict is again religion, and the Church's relation to the people. The warmhearted, benignly sly old Canon of an Irish village has become paralyzed, and a younger man, Father Shaughnessy, comes to take over the Canon's duties. Glacial, snooping, bullying, Shaughnessy, like the Clown in Twelfth Night, thinks that because he is virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...