Word: funnyman
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...with influenza and nervous breakdown, irrational, almost penniless, sued for back alimony by Natalie Talmadge Keaton, recently divorced by Mae Elizabeth Scribbens Keaton, long-faced Funnyman Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton was bundled off in a straitjacket to the psychopathic ward of a Sawtelle, Calif., hospital...
...arbitrators are hand-picked panels of public-minded citizens in 1,700 U. S. cities. Special panels of experts are maintained for technical trade disputes. In Manhattan the AAA has nearly 1,500 in its panels including names like Banker Winthrop Aldrich, Lawyer James M. Beck, Cineman Jesse Lasky, Funnyman Eddie Cantor, Mrs. Vincent Astor. The arbitrators serve free, are called two or three times a year, may be excused if busy...
...beset by police, or starving in the street, or dying of appendicitis in a neglectful free clinic, but when he is up against his old comic difficulty of making a complicated and terrifying piece of machinery work. As the proprietor of a "puffle" works whose employes are on strike, Funnyman Savo becomes entangled in a ten-foot blue print, has first powder and then oil squirted into his surprised face, nearly electrocutes himself before the whole contraption collapses. Audiences found all this a long way from Karl Marx, were appropriately grateful...
That night loudspeakers throughout the land boomed with the clashing words of World Court debaters. In Manhattan, Funnyman Will Rogers devoted his Good . Gulf Gasoline broadcast to a rambling, pointless harangue against the Court which was printed in next day's Hearst- papers. In Washington, Mrs. Roosevelt asked: "Is it really the spirit of our country, men and women, young and old, that they are afraid to join the World Court? I cannot believe it. ... I beg of you to let your representatives in Congress know at once." But above them all, for the second time that day, sounded...
...Martyn Green, jester extraordinary, singer superb, funnyman par excellence, now connected with the D'Oyly Carte Gilbert and Sullivan opera company, discussed false teeth at some length before an audience of Harvard undergraduates yesterday afternoon...