Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Funnyman Ed Wynn's son Frank ran aground his father's motorboat. All Wet, in the East River within sight of his Manhattan apartment; tooted his siren for two hours until police rescued...
...Laugh Parade Funnyman Ed Wynn came ambling on stage aboard a camel. Forgetting the correct word to make the camel kneel, he tries several commands, finally whispered ''Goldman Sachs." The camel collapses in a heap...
...Cahill -whose strategy was to depend on old loyalties rather than new issues. Meantime the Garner candidacy was backed by three potent Californians - William Gibbs McAdoo, William Randolph Hearst, Will Rogers. The onetime Secretary of the Treasury, heading the slate of Garner delegates, actively campaigned while Publisher Hearst and Funnyman Rogers boomed...
Married. Gladys Swarthout, lissom Metropolitan Opera contralto specializing in boys' roles; and Frank Michler Chapman Jr., concert baritone, son of the famed ornithologist, first husband of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb's literary daughter Elisabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Brody...
...stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall might have been set for Funnyman Joe Cook one evening last week, or it might have been a physicist's laboratory. It was crowded with odd-shaped pieces of apparatus. Wires ran over the floor. Leon Theremin, the Russian who makes music out of radio static, was back again, to demonstrate new elaborations of his stunt...