Word: clowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merciful mask is held in place by straps fitting around the head, has two hollow tubes starting at each side of the nosepiece and curving clown to the chin, where they join a larger tube which runs to an oxygen bag connected with an oxygen tank. The mask permits a passenger to eat, talk and smoke while he inhales the soothing oxygen. The whole business, explained Dr. Boothby, is not as uncomfortable as it looks...
Reasons why Harold Ickes would probably turn clown the offer, after genuinely enjoying the compliment, were plentiful...
...Webster: A subordinate fool, clown . . . who apes ludicrously the tricks of his principal...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...
...Birmingham, "Clown Joey" cleared slum areas, opened parks, cracked down on unsanitary dwellings and extortionate rents. The water and gas supply was municipalized, and in 1900 the University of Birmingham was founded by Joseph Chamberlain who had long since become a power in the House of Commons...