Word: barnumism
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...smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece, eat about 150 lb. of fresh fish a day. Goliath, not a circus sea elephant him self, bore a great circus name. Goliath I and II were famed troupers for Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey's Circus (TIME. April 18, 1932). Goliath III was last seen in the U. S. on Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Because he ate too much to show his promoters a profit, he was shipped last July to the Hanover Zoo. Roland was originally a little smaller...
...goes. Generation after generation of American voters, falling for the same old stuff Barnum gave them in the Greatest Show on Earth. There's a sucker born every minute, and at twenty-one he becomes a voter. America is like a bass drum, big and noisy. Step right inside, folks, On with the show...
Divorced. Dr. Richard Horace Hoffmann. Manhattan neurologist; by Janet Beecher, cinemactress (The President Vanishes, The Mighty Barnum); in Los Angeles. Separated from her husband for ten years, Miss Beecher told the judge she delayed the divorce so that her son, now 14, would "be old enough to know what was happening and also to indicate preference, if he cared, as to which parent he wished to remain with." Son Richard was awarded to his mother with the option of summering with his father...
...political strength is that he is a cross between an unscrupulous Bryan and a political Barnum, a realist as well as an exhibitionist. He is a buffoon by policy but in his own line he is as smart as a steel trap. He has conclusively demonstrated that in Louisiana by finding a hundred ingenious ways to turn the institutions of democracy into the tools of absolute dictatorship. He is a master of writing jokers into laws. In the U. S. Senate he has made himself in three short years a master of parliamentary tricks...
This final chapter was explained by the Museum's bald, able Paleontologist Barnum Brown. "It was done," said Mr. Brown, "by trading...