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Word: funnyman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other funnyman looked up at the Ibis, far above him: then dodged suddenly. "Enough is enough!" he sputtered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Will Ugly Lampoon Building Obstruct Mount Auburn Street | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Elizabeth ("Buffy") Cobb Chapman Brody, book-writing daughter of Funnyman Irvin S. Cobb; from Manhattan Broker Alton A. Brody; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Married. Stan Laurel, 43, hair-scratch-ing, empty-headed film funnyman, partner of fat Oliver Hardy; to Vera Ivanova Shuvalova, 28, a Russian singer; day after his divorce; in Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...result of their recent nocturnal spat in his hallway (TIME, Oct. 4), Secretary Carlotta Monti announced she would sue Funnyman W, C. Fields for $200,000. Said Secretary Monti's lawyer: "She will accuse Fields of breaking a walking stick over her head and belaboring her with a rubber hammer." Snorted Funnyman Fields: "I've been sued before-and by experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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