Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hammer Throw.--Won by P. E. Berglund (St) (101 feet); second, A. E. Bailey (St) (84 feet 6 inches); third, Edmund Burke (St) (73 feet...
...result of a competition among the eleven members of the Editorial Board of the Red Book, Ralph Sargent Bailey '26 of Quincy has been appointed to the position of sub-chairman...
...Sublimation of Our Ruling Passion If you would see the most typical product of American dramatic art as well as the American spirit, go see the circus. There you will find the supreme expression of America's delight in size and speed, in superlatives and hyperbole. Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before...
...made the circus. Later, when a baby elephant, the first born in captivity, arrived in Bailey's rival camp, Barnum offered $100,000 for the infant, a fact which Bailey so blatantly advertised that Barnum was forced to merge with his rival in self-defense...
...contest for sub-chairman of the board until May 7 when one of them will be given that position, and the other ten will become Red Book editors. The following men have been retained and will meet today at 1.05 o'clock in James Smith C 31: Ralph Sargent Bailey, of Wollaston; Whitney Cromwell of Mendham, N. J.; George Douglas Debevoise of New York City; Cornelius Du Bois, of Englewood, N. J.; Douglas Huntly Gordon, of Hartford. Conn.; Benry Wilder Keyes Jr., of North Haverhill, N. H.; James Carroll McDonald, of New York City; George Beeve Moynahan of Mattapan; Logan...