Word: clowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother had been given custody of the two children, but Lucien Guitry had kidnapped Sacha, taken him to Russia, hiding him at frontiers and introducing him to the theatre almost as soon as he could talk. Sacha was petted, spoiled, teased by such individuals as Douroff. great St. Petersburg clown, who singled him out of circus crowds and by Tsar Alexander III, before whom his father appeared...
...came to the 27th hole. Little and Goodman were roommates at Cleveland's Country Club. It had been a friendly good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from the pin. When he sighted the downhill lie he knew it was a shot that might...
...nominated. But President Roosevelt refused to pay the political debts which Huey Long thought Candidate Roosevelt had contracted. So Huey Long, the ex-drummer, was a pariah instead of a leader in the most powerful Administration in U. S. history. All he had, besides Louisiana, was the right to clown, to get beaten in a Sands Point washroom, to filibuster and to hurl invective. Yet last week the U. S. realized that save for Franklin Roosevelt, no other public figure could by his death produce so great a change in U. S. politics...
...Addis Ababa, where the Emperor knows perfectly well that famed Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," who is always trying to horn into the Ethiopian Air Force (TIME, March 4), is nothing but a chiseler and a clown, His Majesty was constrained in desperation to give Julian an airman's job again. In France meanwhile stray U. S. members of the oldtime Lafayette Escadrille began organizing a flying circus to fight for Power of Trinity, his Minister in Paris promising "plenty of promotions and plenty of decorations" but showing small readiness to advance cash...
...bite went wild. He missed Baritone Rocco Pandiscio's ear, took a painful nip out of the Pandiscio cheek. Peace was made over the bandaging backstage. Later in the evening Baritone Pandiscio went onstage with his round jowl swathed. He played his next role heartily, the doleful clown in Pagliacci...