Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Jury examination local politicians made electioneering speeches, witnesses left hearings to attend a medicine show, swap animals at a mule trading bee. During the trial witnesses absented themselves, mooned about town to "chaw the rag with, the folks," jurors chatted with friends, waved greetings. Presiding Judge J. F. Bailey spent an hour charging the jury, mentioned the case at hand in but one sentence, reprimanded one juror for hobnobbing. After deliberation the jury last week returned a verdict of guilty, sent John Mills to jail for life, his two accomplices for 21 years each...
...Lionel, defense player for the Montreal Maroons. Lean, morose goalie for the Maple Leafs is Lome Chabot, who has worn the same pair of lucky trousers in every hockey game for five years. The Maple Leafs' chief handicaps were injuries to three of their ablest men-Right-wing Bailey (dislocated shoulder), Defenseman Horner (broken hand), Center Primeau (blood poisoning in his left foot...
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...
...loud, self-advertising mufti, he strides through the dressing-rooms of his troupers, confident that, one & all, they are the finest performers ever assembled, worthy of every conceivable hyperbole. He is, of course, quite right. Undiscouraged by salary cuts, suspensions and failures of other circuses. Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's is still the world's greatest show. And for each of its 24 displays Dexter Fellows has a resounding, polysyllabic jawbreaker of commendation. With his famed adherence to literal truth, he makes some concessions: "I admit we have no gorilla. I will go further...
...that Nina Wilcox (Putnam Ogle) was her playmate, though Mrs. Ogle disapproved of her; that they used to steal number-plates from front doors; that in the summers she stayed with her grandparents at Lenox or Newport. At Newport she thinks she used to swim at a place called Bailey's Beach-"I haven't been there since I was eight or ten years old but I think that was the name of that little beach where we went with our nurses to bathe." In due season she was presented to Buffalo society...