Word: buffooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffoon Manufacturer. In Wisconsin, ten candidates for Governor in all four parties-Democrat, Republican, Progressive and Socialist-campaigned against Republican Governor Julius P. ("The Just") Heil, hoping to capitalize on Heil's buffoonery and isolationist leanings. They lambasted him for failure to spend more than one-fourth of his time on his Governor's duties, for neglecting to call a special session of the legislature to vote funds for civilian defense. Governor Heil, who has made a big success as a manufacturer of everything from oil burners to snowplows (and is proud of it), ignored his critics, boasted...
...Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable Hitler and the porcine Laval were not enough, the buffoon Mussolini joined the chorus, asking, as Italy had asked in the past, for Nice and Corsica...
...week a Japanese business expert on the U.S. gave the islanders eight U.S. "weaknesses" showing that it is no match for Japan: 1) the national debt; 2) a "spoiled child mentality"; 3) low national morale (at the first defeat Taft, Nye & Lindbergh will lead a revolt); 4) Roosevelt, "a buffoon"; 5) hesitancy; 6) "Americans excite easily and cool easily"; 7) disunity-with 20,000,000 Negroes, 10,000,000 unemployed, 5,000,000 trade unionists; 8) inflation...
...patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon!," "Coward!," "Show-off!" filled the Chamber...
Though they never get to Singapore in this picture, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope buffoon their way through the high societies of San Francisco and the Hebrides. Their vaudeville antics and their casual repartee save the movie from the hopeless boredom of the others in the current Dorothy Lamour sarong series...