Word: barnumism
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...Diamond Jim" Brady, echoing P. T. Barnum, claims that there is no such fun as being a sucker, if you can afford it. $2,000,000 rewarded the night clubs of New York New Year's Eve for allowing out of town guests to be suckers. At one club it cost a couple eighty dollars to sit down...
...sixth to die; at Sarasota, Fla., of cerebral hemorrhage. Beginning a seven-man show (themselves the artists) in their home town, Baraboo, Wis., in 1882, they acquired profits the first season of $60 apiece, which they spent on evening clothes and silk hats. By 1890 they were competing with Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME, May 10); Robert...
...golf team has at present, considerable potential strength. Dwight Barnum '27, E. D. Cole '27, J. A. Hutchinson '28, Joseph Mortill, Jr. '28, and Captain E. S. Stimpson '27, who were the five first men on last year's team, are all expecting to play this season...
...Reinhardt, who is making of Salzburg, his childhood home, an annual August rendezvous of everyone at all Art conscious, lurked in his Festspielhaus, directing a rehearsal of Turandot, is proverbially averse to being photographed. Came a little Jew, "the slickest Jew on earth," the uncrowned Barnum of the Drama. Mr. Morris Gest, in genial mood, volunteered to get Cartoonist Barton and his camera into the Festspielhaus where never a cinema camera had clicked before. Mr. Gest succeeded. Max Reinhardt threw up his hands: "There is no stopping you Americans!" Max Reinhardt posed. Flickering light rays imposed upon the film...
...Barnum: "You don't mean to say you will never marry?" Nutt: "No, not exactly." Barnum: "I suppose you intend to marry one of your size...