Word: clowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George is all the more remarkable be cause, to the naked eye, he is a clown. He is fat, he rolls his eyes, he shakes like jelly, he roars with laughter. He can keep friends in stitches for hours with his stories. The butt of all of them is George himself and that makes good...
...Sheridan, who was not built for laughs, satisfied a childhood ambition, took a brief fling at clowning with Ringling Bros., in Grand Rapids. Out of her clown clothes she was a much better show...
...Rouault (75), still hard at work on hog-faced justices, blazing Byzantine Christs with noses like thumbs, and painfully contorted acrobats, has come to look like a wistful old clown or a humorous old priest. He keeps to himself in Paris, suing his enemies for old debts and avoiding his friends...
...paper mill. In return, the World got 40 tons of newsprint, enough to see it through the month. Its 68-year-old publisher hadn't had so much fun since he ran off with the circus nine years ago, to spend five days as a clown...
None of the other four candidates mentioned him in their speeches; one newspaper dubbed him "the clown candidate of the C.I.O." Two weeks before the election, hardly anybody but "Big Jim" thought he had a chance. How could anybody run ahead of 65-year-old Lieutenant Governor Leven Handy Ellis, who had served 30 years in the Legislature, had the dominant newspapers' backing and the support of mayors in all the larger towns...