Word: bozo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violinist is more than a fiddler, that an artist ranks above a painter of pictures, that a poet is superior to a rhymer, but these distinctions are based on certain gradations of value. Would the Association classify Sliding Billy Watson as a hobo of a bum and would Bozo Snyder qualify as either? The fine fraternity of the open road and box car is threatened with the caste system when one wandering gentleman calls himself by a sweeter sound than another. Neo-classicism is raising its head bums must beware the genre as well as critics: it is devastating...
...every day that one can be an aesthete. A vagabond must watch the calendar warily, and when the fitting day arrives, pounce upon it. Bozo Snyder has left these parts to show his toothless grin to other audiences. There are those left, however, who still hold aloft the banner of culture, and the aesthete need not quite despair...
...this respect I must differ from most people, at least most people around Cambridge. They know the whys and whats or everything, at least almost everything. I don't suppose many of them could tell me just why "Bozo" Snyder and "Sliding" Billy Watson are the leaders in that sacred and ancient art--burlesque, or why those two brethren of the buskin bow to Boston audiences at the same time. These whats and whys are not sufficiently esoteric. One can find them without entering all those mills which are not of God and grind even more slowly. Yet to some...