Word: clown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...microphone with Clown Eddie Cantor stepped publicity-courting Minister of Transport Major Leslie Hore-Belisha last week. "Despite the greatest government and police activity." he reported, "there were 187 deaths on British roads during Christmas week, compared to 160 in the previous week." Shrilled Clown Cantor, after Major Hore-Belisha had appealed for more careful driving, "If I were a girl I would never let a boy drive with one arm around...
...will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback to see a train for the first time in their lives, rode the new railway on "shuttle excursions" up & clown the line...
...dealers, like myself, this little farce on the current situation in this great country of ours provided more than a pleasant evening of entertainment. That master card, Smiling Jack Benny, friend of all the little boys down whose throats Jell-o is forced each evening, is the real clown of the show, playing the part of the poor banker just out of Atlanta after a five year vacation there for his noble deeds in the great days of '29. With him as co-partner is a man who threatens to replace Victor Moore as the typification of American stupidity. Porter...
...Barnes and are included with his Cezannes, Matisses and Picassos in his big private museum.* Angelo was showing a blue-trousered dart thrower leaning against an amusement park counter tended by a pretty girl in red uniform ($300). Biagio, youngest of the three brothers, had a red-nosed clown with guitar ($650). Salvatore's picture of sprawling bathers at a public beach was priced...
Great Expectations (Universal). If any scenarist but Charles Dickens had brought the synopsis of this picture to a Hollywood producer, he would have been labeled a clown. An implausible rigmarole about old convicts, London swells, blacksmiths, eccentric old ladies, orphans with mysterious benefactors and gypsy servant girls, animated by coincidence and honeycombed with nonsense, its only similarity to a salable cinema narrative is a banal happy ending. Its main plot line, concerning the love of a young man, Pip, for an arrogant debutante, Estella, is confused by being intermittently subordinated to a mystery story...