Word: clown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likelihood will bring clown upon the White House and on the State Department the same tariff lobby which, like a swarm of locusts, has plagued the Capitol for generations...
Princeton's Dodds. As a scholar President Dodds is a front-rank authority on municipal government, plebiscites and elections. He was 27 when War came. Turned clown by the Army for poor eyesight, he enlisted in the U. S. Food Administration, served as executive secretary for Pennsylvania. In 1920 he began 13 work-packed years with the National Municipal League. In 1922 the League's President Charles Evans Hughes, then U. S. Secretary of State, sent him to straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still...
...kitchen orchestra for part of the thank-you concert that the Chicago Symphony was giving the patrons who had subscribed $59,340 toward the $70,000 deficit. At the concert, motherly Mrs. Stock laughed until she wheezed. She had never known that her Frederick and his men could clown so. For one act the bassoon choir came out like monks and played an intermezzo; for another, little Carl Rink aped a violin prodigy while the other musicians played cards, rustled through newspapers. Four policemen arrested Manager Henry Voegeli when Trombonist Arthur Gunther (220 lb.) appeared in pink tights, attempted...
...football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut in 1929 as Tonio. the clown in Pagliacci. His fine full baritone made him a favorite in Chicago where he sang with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera Company for five seasons. As his operatic fame increased, Robert Ringling began to show an interest in his family's affairs. Before the Chicago Civic Opera ceased...
...Little King." But as the audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save for the big bass drum and the clown's cap which Enrico Caruso used in Pagliacci. While the audience was reverently still a Caruso phonograph record was played...