Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goring: "Lazy, a clown...
...flameproofed." Roughly, this means that the 75,000 yards of canvas, the 41 tents and the wooden parts of the folding grandstands can still catch fire, but that flames cannot spread beyond the area of the fire. After a lot of thought, the circus decided not to yank its Clown Fire House act, feeling "it would be more conspicuous by its absence...
...ambition now is to write a serious play. But he would be content, he says, with the epitaph once given to a famous European clown: "A fool has gone away...
...Brown, oldtime burlesque clown from Holgate, Ohio, and Noel Coward, dapper London sophisticate, have two things in common. Both have traveled thousands of miles, singing and gagging their heads off for G.I.s and Tommies from Nome to Karachi; both have now published accounts of their adventures...
Thank you for the beautifully written story about Wendell Willkie [TIME, Oct. 16]. I am ashamed now of the silence I affected after his Presidential defeat because I feared the ridicule of those who believed him to be a political clown. At least I had the redeeming grace to read, enjoy and tell others about his One World. When a majority of Americans reach Willkie's patriotic stature, America will finally attain true greatness...