Word: barnumism
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...Author. Maurice R. Werner, newspaper reporter of Greenwich Vil- lage, Manhattan, came to fame in 1923 as the biographer of P. T. Barnum, circus man (who once offered Brigham Young $200,000 a year to exhibit himself in a sideshow). Hearing his work applauded, Mr. Werner dropped reporting, is now at work on a life...
...Webster, George Ade, G. F. Worts, Marc Connelly, R. F. Foster-Simon, Schuster ($2.50). Cartoonist Webster long ago laid hold on the ventricles of the U. S. public. Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes of Edmond Hoyle as chief...
...sixteenth green, 3 up and 2 to go. Captain Hodder gave Wattles an even harder fight and carried the match to the seventeenth hole. In the foursomes Mapes and Hodder played the best golf of the afternoon, although they fell before Wattles and Ordway on the nineteenth hole. Barnum and Bohlen conquered Tuttle and Haviland of Yale in a very closely contested match which they ended on the seventeenth...
...results of yesterday's test matches were kept secret and it was announced that the final lineup would not be picked until this morning. Captain Hodder, Mapes, Peirson, and Stimpson are sure to go. Barnum and Bohlen will probably be the other two, unless seven men are taken, in which case the seventh will be Bonbright...
...four University golfers who are definitely slated to meet Yale are Capain Hodder, Mapes, Peirson and Stimpson, Captain of the 1927 team last year. The remaining two members of the team will be picked by a tournament this week from the following five members of the squad: Barnum, Soule, Bohlen, Bonbright and Cole...