Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With lights blazing, band blaring, batons twirling, and all signposts seeming to point to Gargantua the Great, described as "the only full-grown gorilla ever seen on this continent," Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey circus arrived, as punctual as spring, for its annual opening in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. Gargantua out-ballyhooed a whole battalion of new acts, out-ballyhooed Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who appeared- elephantastically in a howdah-for the first time in any circus, out-ballyhooed John & Henry Ringling North who, after payment of $823,000, last winter brought back...
...were: Ralph Hornblower '41, Clifton Helman '41, Bill Tully '41, Al Jaretzki '41, George Smith '41, Bill Stedman '41, Charles Burnett '41, Herbert Wee '41, D. C. Hamilton '41, Joe Gardella '41, Bob Toomey '40, Bill Tyng '41, Louis Harder '41, Al Stohn '41, Joe Scherer '41, G. W. Bailey '40, Ben Smith '39, Pete Thompson '40, Pete Elser '41, Tom Gaffney '41, Bob James '41, and George Harder...
Before 1919 the Barnum & Bailey Circus was THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and Ringling Brothers Circus was simultaneously THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOW. In 1919 this duplicate hugeness was joined under one top. The result, according to the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, was not only the biggest circus ever but one of the fanciest conspiracies "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." on record. Last week the circus income tax evasion case, touring one legal phase after another for over five years, pitched its tents in Manhattan as the Government began its prosecution...
Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus' gorilla Gargantua the Great, wrote Gargantuan Columnist Heywood Broun three weeks ago, "is the fiercest looking thing I have ever seen on two legs. And probably his power and truculence were all the more impressive because he did look a good deal like a distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin...
...most completely conglomerate mess of involved language which was ever perpetrated upon a free people," rumbled Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in the Senate last week. "Is it conceivable . . . that there could be any emergency on earth that would justify it?" rasped North Carolina's Josiah Bailey. "Perhaps it will not work," admitted Nebraska's old George Norris, "but what will work...