Word: clownish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...episode pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...
...Great Feeling (Warner) is another clownish musical harnessing Jack Carson and Doris Day to the formula used in My Dream Is Yours, which they recently dragged through the neighborhood circuits. Doris is again the little girl with a big voice, in search of a still bigger career. Carson is the man to help her. His help, as usual, is mostly hindrance...
Grinning, clownish Glen Taylor mounted the stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
...sauce for Bertram is sauce for P. G. Joy in the Morning is not only Author Wodehouse's 56th novel. It is also his first peacetime production since his somewhat woolly activities as a broadcaster from Nazi Germany brought down a hail of criticism on his clownish head...
...Itabaiana. Now he had disciples. They built a temple. Coming into a town, they would hang an image of Christ on a tree, kneel in prayer, lift the image aloft and triumphantly enter the town to the chorus of litanies. Antonio Conselheiro's sermons were barbarous and terrifying, clownish but dreadful, compounded of visions, prophecies, dogmatic counsels, delivered in a dull monotone, with downcast eyes, suddenly interrupted when he turned his eyes on his listeners and hypnotized them with his intensity. He preached...