Word: clownish
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...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...
...that the entire encumbrance is drawn in by the suction and swept along to success. She impersonates a fictitious partner of the penniless lawyer she adores, wins a lawsuit for him in spite of himself, and wins him, too, after an impassioned speech set in the middle of a clownish court room scene. The audience laughed constantly-mostly on account of Miss Moore. She worked hard...
...witnessed the ungraceful Charleston, can fail to agree that modern dancing has its faults. A man of less keen perception than Henry Ford, realizes its shortcomings. But no one, except Mr. Ford, is quite so absurd as to suggest a return to the awkward clownish movements of a few years back. The company that performs with Mr. Dunham demonstrates conclusively that barn dances, at least, must never supplant the fox-trot and the new waltz. There have been periods of graceful polished dancing when rhythm and ease and picturesqueness gave color and beauty to the ballroom. But evidently Mr. Ford...
...semi-final match against Howard Kinsey (No. 4 nationally), the crowd soon saw that he was at it again. For the first two sets he played idly but effectively, led at 6-4, 7-5, then dawdled, flapped his serve like a chef turning a meatball, made clownish errors so that Kinsey won the third and fourth sets, 6-2, 6-3. In the fifth set, with Kinsey leading at 5-2 and the gallery becoming demoniac, he decided that his moment had come...
Senator George (Democrat): "There are some features of the rules, no doubt, that should be changed; but he defeated any change by the brutal and clownish way in which he went about...