Word: clownish
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...giants of debate as Woodrow Wilson faced loomed against him. Instead of Henry Cabot Lodge I, Philander Knox and Missouri's irreconcilable, tigerish Jim Reed, the 1939 President faced only relatively mild characters like Missouri's Bennett Clark, North Dakota's Nye, North Carolina's clownish Reynolds (see p. 16), and Henry Cabot Lodge II, bright but time-abiding. The great Isolationists of yore, Idaho's Borah and California's Johnson, were still on the scene (although Borah had grippe last week) but neither of these packs the punch with today's Senators...
Tony Galento, clownish saloon-keeping heavyweight of Orange, N. J., was training for his Philadelphia fight with Negro John Henry Lewis five days before the bout. After flattening three sparring partners at Madame Bey's Summit, N. J., training camp, Fisticuffer Galento drove sweatily back to his bar, served a few beers, drank a few himself and was soon running a 104° temperature between chills. At Orange Memorial Hospital, where his case was diagnosed as lobar pneumonia, he tried to fight his way out of the oxygen tent, relaxed at the request of his manager and declared...
...face is a lamentable part of her body. When he paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling on their day off. Artist Evergood's distaste for rich playgirls was expressed in Beauty...
...animals acting like animals, but from animals acting like people. Mickey Mouse, of course, looked like a human from the start. He has the large soft eyes and pointed face of his creator. Occasionally another portrait creeps into the company. In character and appearance, Max Hare very much resembles clownish Heavyweight Max Baer...
...peak in the 20's, when both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court...