Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Charlotte Fixel had represented herself as Mrs. Erlanger; that she had nursed Mr. Erlanger assiduously through his last illness. Then Lawyer Steuer began to bring in names of the theatrical world. Producer A. H. Woods said that he had met the contestant in Paris as "Mrs. Erlanger." Funnyman Eddie Cantor rolled his eyes when asked about his profession, said: "Well, there has always been some doubt, but I am supposed to be an actor." He too had met the defendant, in 1925, as "Mrs. Erlanger." When Lawyer Steuer had introduced 104 witnesses who over ten years...
...Funnyman Ade's theme-song in this backward-glancing booklet: "Not wet-not dry-just history." No believer in the saloon's return, he can call up visions of its past with a dry eye, a drily humorous tongue. Though he gives a fair imitation of a man straddling the Prohibition fence, on p. 162 he drops over on the Wet side, admits to membership in the Association Against the 18th Amendment...
...Funnyman Will Rogers sailed for the Orient with his friend Correspondent Floyd Gibbons to report the Manchurian hostilities. Said he: "Japan is going to hear the awfulest compliments, as I hear they don't stand for any wisecracks...
East Wind's velocity is exceedingly low except for the sporadic appearance of a funnyman named Joe Penner. Mr. Penner bounces around, ogles like a monstrous, puckish infant. He sells a bleached elephant to some unsuspecting Indo-Chinese, is thereafter terrorized by the victims of his chicane...
...were raided for liquor by the police, were closed by the University (TIME, Feb. 23). The Michigan Daily reported all these events. Last week the Daily reported more strife at Michigan. Managing Editor of the Daily this year is tall, dark Richard Lardner Tobin, 21-year-old nephew of Funnyman Ring Lardner. Son of Editor Richard G. Tobin of the Star (Niles, Mich.), he has since the age of 10 carried papers, reported, edited, run a press and linotype. He used to play the violin. Also, he played football while at Niles High School, got his nose broken five times...