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...that it is his own snoot rather than King George's that needs to be kept out of the city. But though notice has been served of dismissal, yet, for some months the world may still hope to be entertained by the antics and extravagances of the champion buffoon whose ambition, like that of Dogberry, seems to be 'Write me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snoot | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Libel | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Died. Eddie Foy, 70, famed well-loved buffoon, star of Cinderella (1889), Sinbad, Ali-Baba, and many another early musical comedy, hero of the Iroquois Theatre fire when he was the last man to leave the stage; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo., while on a farewell vaudeville tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...various intervals a United States Senator momentarily forgets his official dignity and plays the buffoon to the great delight of the chamber, the galleries and the nation. There are times when a member of the legislature can play the sedulous ape and relieve the tediousness of law making without consequences detrimental to his own reputation, the state which he represents, or the august body of which he is a member. However, now that Senator Helfin of Alabama has recanted and admitted that he delivered his oratorical acid of a day or so ago in "fun", it appears that the laughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VILLAINS IN THE CASE | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...Librarian Carl B. Boden, President of the American Library Association, quailed before the mayoral authority, fearing for his $11,000 per annum job. But citizens forestalled by injunction a public burning of the books Mr. Herrman "suspected." The press ridiculed "Chicago's Dayton" and called Mayor Thompson "clown," "buffoon," "braying jackass." He did not mind. He had other things to think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Chicago Mayor | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

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