Word: barnumism
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...present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed by Republicans from the high-colored history of Tammany currently published by the biographer of P. T. Barnum...
...Smith Pierce 110 R. W. F. Smith-Zimmerman Semitic Mus. 1 Chemistry 11 Memorial Hall Chinese 2 Sever 36 Class. Philology 27 Sever 30 Economics 1b Bacon-J. D. Harris Sever 5 S. Harris-Zadoo Sever 11 Economics 6a Sever 6 Economics 38 Sever 30 Education B Barnum-Dorb Sever 14 Edwards-Nutter Sever 17 Pepper-Worcester Sever 18 English 28 New Lect. Hall English 33 New Fogg Lect. Rm. English 75 Emerson J French 6 Prof. Morize, 1 Harvard 5 Prof. Allard, 2 Harvard 5 Mr. Webster, 3 Harvard 6 Mr. Raiche, 4 Harvard 6 Mr. Lincoln, 5 Harvard...
...Smith Pierce 110 R. W. F. Smith-Zimmerman Semitic Mus. 1 Chemistry 11 Memorial Hall Chinese 2 Sever 36 Class. Philology 27 Sever 30 Economics 1b Bacon-J. D. Harris Sever 5 S. Harris-Zadoo Sever 11 Economics 6a Sever 6 Economics 38 Sever 30 Education B Barnum-Dorb Sever 14 Edwards-Nutter Sever 17 Pepper-Worcester Sever 18 English 28 New Lect. Hall English 33 New Fogg Lect. Rm. English 75 Emerson J French 6 Prof. Morize, 1 Harvard 5 Prof. Allard, 2 Harvard 5 Mr. Webster, 3 Harvard 6 Mr. Raiche, 4 Harvard 6 Mr. Lincoln, 5 Harvard...
...people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public after the accident. She was Mabel Stark, once the chief ornament of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey "cat-acts." In these she allowed herself to be embraced by a tiger, something no other woman had ever dared to do. When the Ringling circus gave up wild animal acts, because spectators often suspected cruelty to the animals, Mabel Stark was compelled to perform far less hazardous...
...visited her in 1926; gave her many intelligence tests; was impressed by her clarity of thought, her apparent willingness to cooperate. Other scientists were equally interested. A year and a half ago, Dr. Adolph Hans Schultz, anatomist of Johns Hopkins University, wrote to Dexter Fellowes of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, asking for Miss Congo's body when she died. Life then seemed just beginning for the growing gorilla girl. She lived on the Ringling estate waiting to grow up; then to step into a feature part on the Ringling program. Last week scientists at Johns Hopkins University...