Word: barnumism
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...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...
...white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race, in which he consistently outran the horse. In 1898 he stumbled over a dog, broke his leg, thereafter coached at Yale, Maine and Ohio State, before settling at Michigan. Once able to jump 11 ft. backward, at 68 he could still...
After journeying north for six consecutive years to be whaled by New York University, little West Virginia Wesleyan turned tables. A 200-lb. fullback named Len Barnum punched the ball to N. Y. U.'s 8-yd. line in the last period, kicked the winning field goal...
...needed. On Twentieth Century's current payroll are: Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, George Arliss, Constance Cummings, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Sally Blane. Tullio Carminati. Forthcoming Twentieth Century pictures: Broadway Through a Keyhole, Moulin Rouge, Advice to the Lovelorn, House of Rothschild, Gentlemen, the King!, The Great Barnum...
...stores. A new firm called Stuart, Briton & Co. has Sandy Macnab Scotch whiskey. Scions of the Hotel McAlpin family have Smirnoff vodka and other liqueurs which they will make under patriarchal Vladimir Smirnoff's direction in a factory at Bethel, Conn., hometown of the late great P. T. Barnum...