Word: claghorning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bilbo made this clear today when he turned down a Hollywood offer to play Senator "the Man" Leeds who loses a political victory to radio's booming-voiced, mythical Senator Claghorn...
...surrealism that seems to have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart of Senator Claghorn's country, is probably the dullest thing ever to come out of the Disney studios...
...radio station WRC. Senator Claude Pepper bravely tooted his harmonica, Congressman James Percy Priest struggled with a guitar, a quartet sang, but Taylor and his banjo took the cake with Cowboy Joe from Idaho. As the legislator "most likely to succeed in radio," he got $100 from Senator Claghorn-in Confederate money, that...
...Senator Claghorn on the Fred Allen show (TIME, Dec. 31), Kenny Delmar has been something more than sensational. Last week, after eight months burlesquing Southern statesmanship, Senator Claghorn was far and away the best comic character of the 1945-46 season...
...recent weeks he has traveled to Texas and Georgia for special "Claghorn Days." He has attended conventions, not as Delmar, but as Claghorn. Book publishers hounded him to write an autobiography of the senator. Hollywood would begin production in July of a movie titled after the senator's best-loved and nationally overworked line: "It's a joke...