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...most entertaining and lovable of knaves. Caught out in his outrageous boasts, his fantastic lies, shamming dead (to avoid being killed) on the battlefield, he never loses his unshatterable aplomb, never lags in invention or languishes in wit. At bottom Falstaff may well be a superb showman, not expecting to be believed, only counting on being relished; not expecting to be acquitted, only certain of being pardoned. "He carves out his jokes," said Hazlitt, "as he would a capon or a haunch of venison, where there is cut and come again; and pours out upon them the oil of gladness...
...sworn in by Chief Justice Cureton of the State Supreme Court, Governor O'Daniel made a grave face. Said the showman Governor: "I pray that glamor and color will be eliminated from our legislative session and that seriousness and dignity will reign supreme...
...Master showman of Relief is David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance of America. Last week in Washington, Showman Lasser produced a tragedy in 50 acts, designed to show the Administration and Congress that instead of cutting WPA rolls the U. S. should furnish more jobs at better...
...brought many innovations into the twelve-year-old National Football League. It was his idea to divide the league into two divisions, have a post-season play-off for the championship. He introduced red satin trousers for his players, entertainment at intermission. But Bostonians were apathetic to Showman Marshall's ideas. After dropping $85,000 there, he transplanted his Redskins in Washington last year...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...