Word: marionettist
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...hundred and fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed...
...alley where bad-tempered old gentlemen play frenzied croquet every Sunday, a new Punch & Judy show was operating last week with the consent and approval of the Senate of the French Republic. For years the root-te-tooting of the Luxembourg's Guignol has been supplied by a marionettist known as M. Brioché. Recently elderly M. Brioché rang down his little curtain for the last time and died...
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