Word: clowned
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...nominated. But President Roosevelt refused to pay the political debts which Huey Long thought Candidate Roosevelt had contracted. So Huey Long, the ex-drummer, was a pariah instead of a leader in the most powerful Administration in U. S. history. All he had, besides Louisiana, was the right to clown, to get beaten in a Sands Point washroom, to filibuster and to hurl invective. Yet last week the U. S. realized that save for Franklin Roosevelt, no other public figure could by his death produce so great a change in U. S. politics...
...Addis Ababa, where the Emperor knows perfectly well that famed Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," who is always trying to horn into the Ethiopian Air Force (TIME, March 4), is nothing but a chiseler and a clown, His Majesty was constrained in desperation to give Julian an airman's job again. In France meanwhile stray U. S. members of the oldtime Lafayette Escadrille began organizing a flying circus to fight for Power of Trinity, his Minister in Paris promising "plenty of promotions and plenty of decorations" but showing small readiness to advance cash...
...bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...
...Informer (RKO). When considering the Irish, the fixed policy of Hollywood in the past has been to do so in terms of either Abie's Irish Rose or Peg o' My Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a cow-eyed crooner with a rush of brogue to the face can be classed immediately as a daring experiment. The Informer, of which the hero is a drunken, overgrown, dull-witted and cowardly Dublin bully, is a daring experiment and considerably more. Adapted by Dudley Nichols from Liam O'Flaherty...
Years ago most European performers learned about rubles and today play Russia only when they can get no other engagement or want to enjoy for a few weeks the ovations always given by Soviet audiences to any singer, actor, musician or clown from "outside...