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Word: clown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lynn Brua '41, a member of the varsity fencing team, has a rope-spinning act after the style of Will Rogers, which he developed over the course of ten years, while both a clown and a Punch and Judy show are acts offered that are exceptionally well suited to children parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SUPPLIES GREATLY VARIED LIST OF ENTERTAINERS | 3/22/1941 | See Source »

...however, will take 10 to 15 hours a week and they don't go along with the lectures, which makes the course a little difficult to organize. Fieser's Organic Chemistry (Chem. 2) is good for learning experimental technique. Fieser himself is said to be a "kind of a clown," and his lectures are the best and major part of the course. This is one of the most popular courses in the department. Chem. 4 is absolutely unnecessary for Divisionals but good for research. Wilson "peps up a difficult- subject" in Chem 6. This is a necessary course for advanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fields of Concentration | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...high-class special ties, "Hi Ya, Gentlemen" has come to town with a vim, vigor and verve making it a serious contender for the title of best musical comedy of the year. Incidentally, it proves what every sports-writer has always known: Max Baer is at heart the clown, not the fighter, and is better off by far in the former role...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

There are a clown who has worked several summers with a circus, a cowboy rope spinner, a handwriting expert, two palmists, and two complete puppet shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS EMPLOY TALENTS IN HOLYDAY ENTERTAINING | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam Session | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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