Word: buffoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Charles Spencer Chaplin, famed international buffoon; by Lita Grey Chaplin, onetime actress; in Los Angeles. Comedian Chaplin did not contest the action. Mrs. Chaplin was awarded approximately $500,000 and the custody of her two sons...
...thwarted in his presidential ambitions, he said he was through with politics-but not quite. He wanted to name his successor in the Senate. He picked a Wet named James A. Collet. He compared Candidate Collet's opponent, a Dry named Charles Martin Hay, to Alabama's buffoon Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. But Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright. In St. Louis, he is a lawyer. In politics, he preaches Prohibition...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four successive days with a great air of spontaneity but without lifting their eyes from the written page to God. Though extemporaneous outpourings could only reasonably have been expected from the Methodist, it was a pity, devout observers felt, that the appearance, at least, of immediate inspiration had not been affected...
...gathered there would understand or even hear speeches addressed to their Father in heaven. Why then should reverend gentlemen of several sects hold up their faiths for a mockery by delegates who thought denomination was two words? Such a question was implicit in the further writings of that impious buffoon who criticized the preachers...
...wrote tone poems which, in the U. S. at least, remain his most popular work. Of these, Don Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...