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  • The movie The Passion of the Christ, for all its dark themes, portrays Jesus as a fun-maker, a smiler.

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • The movie The Passion of the Christ, for all its dark themes, portrays Jesus as a fun-maker, a smiler.

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • The movie The Passion of the Christ, for all its dark themes, portrays Jesus as a fun-maker, a smiler.

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • The movie The Passion of the Christ, for all its dark themes, portrays Jesus as a fun-maker, a smiler.

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • The first stunt tried was called "Throwing Smiles," not a new amusement but always a fun-maker.

    Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt

  • No more vulgar term exists than "masher," and it is a distinct comfort to find Webster ascribing the origin of the word to England's reckless fun-maker, -- _Punch_.

    Stage Confidences Clara Morris

  • He started as a mere professional fun-maker, and he has not done with fun-making even yet, but he has developed in the course of years into a rough and ready philosopher, and he has written two books which are in their own way unique.

    My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

  • "Polly Syllable, of course," Julietta answered, and the burst of laughter that followed would have been enough to silence the most ambitious joker, but this girl fun-maker was not in the least ambitious, so she laughed appreciatively with the others.

    Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Stella M. Francis

  • The others could not lose a chance to poke fun at him; for it was not often the opportunity came when the fun-maker of the troop could be caught napping.

    The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain George A. Warren

  • Had not GEORGE ROBEY invented for application to himself the descriptive phrase, "The Prime Minister of Mirth," it should be at once affixed to the Law Courts 'fun-maker; but, since it is too late to use that, let us think of him as "The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Mirth."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 23, 1917 Various

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