Word: clown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...versed in all kinds of hand-springs, walking with arms, etc. Mr. Knapp's spider walk occasioned long and continued laughter and applause. The race between Messrs. Bachelder and Knapp and Dudley and Faulkner in the double somersault art was won by Dudley and Faulkner. This event was the clown of the afternoon, and the ape-like movements of the contestants elicited long and uproarious applause. In this event Dudley won the first prize and Knapp the second...
...this noon form one of the pleasantest features in the athletic annals of the year. The races for senior eights are generally well contested, and the crews, though hastily gotten together, often row in really good form. The race between freshman eights serve the same purpose as does the clown in a circus. It is to be hoped, however, that the eighty-nine crews will not be wrought to such a pitch of enthusiasm as to attempt to drive their boats through the sea wall, as did the freshman crews of last year. The four oar and single working-boat...
...smooth the roughness of this barnyard clown...
sings the clown in "All's Well." In authorities of this sort we can find our consolation...
...Adam Forepaugh, of circus fame, brings a Humpty Dumpty Troupe to the Howard. Mr. George H. Adams is the clown, and one of the novelties introduced is a large menagerie...