Word: clowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Federalist period until 1928 Newburyport, Mass, was a staid, church going, codfish-eating community. Before and since, this has been far from the case. Prime clown of early Newburyport "Lord" Timothy Dexter. He sent coals to Newcastle, warming pans to the In made a fortune. He lived in a mansion bristling with minarets and wo statues. He drank constantly, crown haddock-hawker his private poet laureate with a wreath of parsley, spelled v than Chaucer, published oftener...
...then he seemed to become angered and turned and swallowed my little frog. Then the third frog became impatient and swallowed my second frog. Then the fourth frog swallowed the third frog. This kept on happening until the 19th frog had swallowed the 18th frog. When it got clown to the 20th frog he didn't even move, didn't seem to be hungry. I opened his mouth and looked down his throat: he had swallowed a wild goose...
...Pepper Martin. Franklin C. Watkins of Philadelphia won the first Carnegie prize of $1.500 and also the Albert C. Lehman prize of $2,000 for the best purchasable painting. Hero Watkins' prizewinner was a large oval canvas entitled "Suicide in Costume." It showed the body of a grimacing clown with a smoking revolver clutched in one hand, sprawled over a bed. In manner it was a little reminiscent of the late great George Bellows and Jean Louis Forain...
Edward W. Gardner, commercial agent at Apia, Samoa who went clown in a hurricane in 1863 with the Anita...
...Zambezi Valley, Northern Rhodesia, Rev. Myron Taylor met the missionary's traditional foe. A trapped lion had broken loose; natives were afraid to track it clown. Missionary Taylor got a rifle, advanced upon the lion, fired thrice, missed thrice. The gun jammed. The natives fled. When they returned the lion had eaten Missionary Taylor's hands and one foot, clawed his body bloody. Missionary Taylor died...