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Word: pourquoi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Carl Adrian Wettach, 79, tragicomic, Swiss-born circus clown known as "Crock," who elevated pantomime to an art by playing a tiny fiddle with cotton gloves, moving a piano to a stool rather than stool to piano, shrugged off the world's perplexities with his famed exclamations, "Pourquoi?" (why?) and "Sans blague?" (no kidding?); of a heart attack; in Imperia, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 27, 1959 | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

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