Word: aerialist
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Died. James Hardy, 64, famed aerialist; of heart disease; in Toronto. In 1896 he wire-walked across Niagara Falls. Though not the first,† Foolhardy Hardy was one of the rashest, capered, balanced on chairs...
Locker-Boy Thomas Bowman jumped for the trailing fragment of anchor line, stumbled when he was about to grab it. As Aerialist Mingalone rose speedily, so did the alarm of his fellow Cameraman Philip Coolidge and his friend, Rev. James J. Mullen, Old Orchard priest, golfer, aviation enthusiast and expert skeetshooter who was watching the experiment...
...included himself and his wife, has gaily jumbled Charlie Chaplin on roller skates, Mickey Mouse, Mutt ;; Jeff, Shakespeare's Bottom, Will Rogers, Popeye the Sailor. In Tragedy Uncle Tom prays by the bedside of Little Eva, Hamlet sulks, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O'Neill scowl, Aerialist Lillian Leitzel drops from her circus partner's arms to death...
Married, Clyde Beatty, 28, famed wild animal trainer (The Big Cage); and Harriet Evans, 24, circus aerialist; in Bristol, Tenn...
Alfredo Codona, aerialist supreme in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus, slipped into a bathrobe, hoped he would find his brother's hands waiting to catch him when he spun dizzily out of his triple somersault from the sweeping end of a flying trapeze 60 ft. above the centre ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. He usually manages to find them, misses every two or three months. The Codona Brothers* have been holding hands for over 20 years, have been grabbing at each other after Alfredo's triple somersault several times a week since...