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Word: buffooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will probably receive letters claiming the Dizzy one for Arkansas, although why we should want to be attached to that buffoon is more than I can understand. Man's conceit takes strange forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Share-the-Wealth Wave | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson. The wonder is that the professional comedians don't unionize in an attempt to preserve their interests and send a lobby to Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE OF MIRTH | 3/7/1935 | See Source »

Working on a variety of motives, the opposition everrede resistance by a vote of 44 to 43. McCarran and other disciples of Mr. Green, of the American Federation of Labor, fathered the measure, blinded by a dogmatic adherence to the one high-wage scale for all workers. The buffoon from Louisiana, too tolerantly dismissed as a fool, whipped wavering Senators into line, from a much-heralded desire to "do anything" to thwart the administration. Republicans, acting with usual partisan tactics, voted almost as a block for the amendment. The appalling fact is that none of the opposition cliques knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT VS. RADICALISM | 2/23/1935 | See Source »

...Carnival is a season of buffoonery," explained earnest Staatsminister Esser. "The Nazi salute is too holy and sanctified to be given in carnival." Elsewhere in the Fatherland brownshirt stalwarts expressed the vehement opinion that nobody but a Bavarian buffoon would think of mincing about with hand over heart all during carnival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buffoons | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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