Word: clowned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite style note is the new high-crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors...
Seventeen years have passed since Enrico Caruso walked into the Victor Talking Machine plant in Camden, N. J., called out a greeting to everyone he met, shed coat, waistcoat, collar, tie, shut his eyes and became for a few moments the brokenhearted clown in Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba, the clown's song which Caruso sang that day, helped more than any other to put his record royalties over the million dollar mark. Victor says that no other voice has recorded so brilliantly, so exactly as Caruso's. But the mechanics of record making have undergone many a change...
...Binghamton, N. Y.. Supreme Court Justice Andrew J. McNaught granted a divorce to Catherine Koppe from Lillian Beaumont on the ground that, since the partners were both female, the marriage was void. In March 1927, wearing a clown costume, a man's wig and a van dyke beard. Lillian ("William") Beaumont appeared with Catherine Koppe before the Rev. Francis T. Cooke, saying they had just come from a masquerade, wanted to be married. He obliged...
...Spokane, Wash., Harper Joy, investment banker, for his summer vacation joined a circus as a clown...
...unexpired term. Back in Americus, Ga. he practiced law, served as judge of the city court. In 1911 when the Democrats organized the House and elected Champ Clark Speaker, he was recalled to Washington to act as parliamentarian again. At the Democratic Convention at Baltimore in 1912 he handed clown parliamentary law that resulted in Woodrow Wilson's nomination. That year he was again elected to the House where he has served continuously ever since. In Congress: Beginning as an inconspicuous member of the powerful Ways & Means Committee he gradually worked his way toward the top. President Harding appointed...