Word: clown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bachelor, Betty, the elder daughter of George V's second son, the Duke of York, is in direct line to mount the throne as Queen Elizabeth. She was welcomed to the circus last week by a jovial fellow who could easily cut the figure of a wide-mouthed clown, were he not the Empire's principal sporting peer, the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. Knight of the Garter and Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland...
English reporters contented themselves with respectfully noting that Her Royal Highness appeared to enjoy the circus thoroughly. But the Canadian Press told its Dominion readers: "Elizabeth's happiest moment came when 'Whimsical Walker,' England's oldest clown (he is well past 80 years of age) came to the royal box and presented his familiar 'red hot' poker, which the princess laughingly grasped. The red paint didn't fool...
...Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around the track with a parasol, a bustle or false whiskers...
Next day, like a startled old lady, Mother Earth kept on trembling. There were aftershocks in Baffin Bay. In Panama, 17 shocks disrupted communications, shook clown a few ramshackle houses, scared natives. The third day, the Lindberghs, asleep in the Azores, were roused at 3 a. m. by more shocks. The fourth day there were temblors in Portland, Ore., in Italy's Abruzzi region on the Adriatic Sea. At last on the fifth day old Mother Earth seemed to have calmed down...
Eddie Cantor: Just like my little boy says, Laugh, clown, Laugh...