Word: clown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Chinese war lords and the Government fear him. Cultured Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...private roof garden, bright with pansies, geraniums, potted shrubs. Last week Nazi staff chiefs gathered on this Hitler Olympus which overlooks the garden of President von Hindenburg. Joyously they received orders to make Germany at once what Chancellor Hitler called a "Totalitarian (One Party) State." Then they rushed clown from the roof garden to terrify the Fatherland with a series of pouncing raids which resulted in taking into custody even Herbert von Bismarck, grandnephew of the late famed Iron Chancellor...
...watched a robin attack a windowpane for over a period of two months. His efforts so exhausted him that he would lie on the ground for hours without moving and his beak was bloody from continually striking it against the pane. We tried pulling the shade clown and soaping the window to no effect; a mirror placed against the pane, so that he got a good full view of himself, excited him neither more nor less. Unlike the Kansas City robin (TIME, March 27) he had no mate in evidence. On the roof just over the window was a half...
Last April John Ringling had given him the run of his "Greatest Show on Earth" for a month. His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants. He likes best the Codonas' famed Passing Leap, a feat in which Vera Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before...
...lead when the star breaks her ankle the night before opening. Bobe Daniels was the star and quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever told 1. That the show must go on 2. Laugh, you clown, though your heart is breaking 3. I guess you got me, kid, but good luck and God bless you (coughs gently, dies)? It just seems that no motion picture director can ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that...