Word: clown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years since that day, Archduke Otto has devoted his life, with the sober zeal of a Gilbert & Sullivan clown prince, to the cause of Restoration outlined in that childish paper. From Madeira the impoverished family moved to Spain, where 40 Spanish grandees bought them a villa...
...dressing room. Champion Louis, who had defended his title for the ninth time in 30 months, admitted that it was the "most worstest fight" he ever fought. But what griped him more than his own shortcomings were his opponent's antics. "He's jes' a clown," he muttered. "I ain't never had no man kiss me before like Go doy did. I thought he was in there to fight me, not to play a love scene...
Gracting that Mr. James is a clown and comparatively harmless himself, nevertheless he provides a dramatic lesson in the basic techniques of modern dictatorship, and a reminder of the economic sickness of American democracy. It can happen here. Social inequality, economic insecurity--these are the breeding ground of bigger Hitlers than Mr. James. Saddest commentary of all is the perfectly evident fact that one of Mr. Dies' customary floor shows would only serve to inflate such a penny-ante movement as "Yankee-American Action" to grotesque proportions. The body politic, racked with internal disorder, requires as never before a scientific...
Governor Homer Adams Holt of West Virginia, faint kin to U. S. Senator Rush Holt, donned old lace and a veil, clutched a large bouquet in a Charleston Junior League revue called Dream of a Clown. Flower girls to His Excellency's bride were former Governor Herman Guy Kump and Walter Eli Clark, Charleston publisher and onetime Governor of Alaska...