Word: buffooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of Toledo was discovered and the Press considered it of "human interest" that on the voyage the Infanta Beatriz had played privately on the musical saw and Queen Victoria Eugenie had permitted herself to be publicly amused at the ship's concert by long-nosed Buffoon Jimmy Durante. Passengers told how a contingent of Spanish Monarchist youths sailed on the Conte di Savoia from the French Riviera to Gibraltar to enlist and tight with the Spanish Whites. To them Victoria Eugenie was "Our Queen." They knelt to Her Majesty and kissed her hand while the Italian band played...
...their age and the state of their health, Governor Curley has explained himself out of one of the most embarrassing situations that even he has ever managed to blunder into. In a statement that is an insult to the intelligence of any but a Curley-appointed, democratic judge, the buffoon of Beacon Hill staunchly avowed that his intentions behind the proposed ouster of all judges over seventy were inspired by an utterly altruistic desire to relieve poor old men "with failing strength" from performing "arduous duties...
Having succeeded in stirring up a rousing jamboree with Democratic discredit for its occasion, and Major-General Hagood for its toastmaster and buffoon, the Republicans have generously withdrawn from the fun, and left the opera bouffa to their distracted rivals. Through the pungent clouds of gas that hang over Congress and the War Department loom one or two incontrovertible facts...
...amorous buffoon and gossip" of the Diaries, but a busy little executive, years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed...
...pretty 19-year-old Daughter Carmelia tended a six-acre truck farm behind the house, sold the produce to passing motorists. Now & then Crempa from his window nourished a gun at brash deputy sheriffs. Scotch Plains looked on Crempa as a hero, the impotent sheriff as a buffoon. Last week Sheriff C. Wesley Collins was ready for strong measures...