Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous histrionic efforts Joe has been successively, a high jumper, five day bike rider, clown, prize fighter, acrobat, and tractor operator. Now, assisted by Carol Hughes, he overcomes his fear of horses the bold way. In short the usual Brown formula is followed. A timid soul, he pretends to great prowess on the ponies, and what you imagine would happen does, and in a big way. This is among Joe Brown's funnier pictures, and the supporting cast, headed by the redoubtable Skeets Gallagher and the aforesaid Miss Hughes, who is attractive, in a hard, metallic way, bet still...
...Little Skipper from Heaven Above," in which he experiences frightful difficulty making his accompanying octet let him take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point in Red, Hot and Blue the magniloquent clown emphatically declares of one turn of events: "It's propitious!" Then a cloud dims the glint in his mad, beady eyes as he adds: "I think...
...late Sidney Smith's Andy Gump for the New York News-Chicago Tribune syndicate. Comic Artist Goldberg was vexed at the idea of drawing another cartoonist's characters. Next thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected from the new Goldbergian feature the old Goldbergian...
...Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...
...hurricane. I've got it. Go ahead." "The water at high tide-T-I-D-E- clawed down the sand bank that protects it from the ocean. That sixth word is clawed - CLAWED - C-L-A-W-E-D ! All wires are clown. The wind is so fast we can't walk against it, autos can't get through, there are no lights and communications. . . . People here don't keep much food on hand and the dairy, milk, ice, meat -all food service is gone. It takes a revealing flash like this to -GET THE HELL...