Word: barnumism
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...Huns who invaded Italy in the Fifth Century, however, the Romans' appetite for watching wild beasts at play disappeared. The brave days of the circus ended. Only in the last 100 years did circusing come back to honor as a profession. Last week, with many blazing announcements, the Ringling-Barnum Circus came out of winter quarters, began its 1925 season with an engagement in Manhattan...
Afterward, he went to Tufts College, played centre on the football eleven and was called "Jumbo"?a name which Mr. P. T. Barnum had just popularized. Next, he went back to Ludlow, married and read law in a law-office. Three years later, he was admitted to the bar, became a successful attorney. From 1908 to 1912, he was State Attorney General. He won a murder case where the plea of insanity was made, but wept when the man was sent to the gallows. At one time or another, he represented the New York, New Haven & Hartford and Boston...
...Bonbright '25, one of last year's possibilities, will be heard from when practice starts, together with Dwight Barnum, C. O. Simpson, Paul Sullivan, and J. A. Vogel of the 1927 team...
...work. It will discuss the tale of the cherry tree as the essence of truth. At the end of each year they will publish a supplement to Bartlett's "Familiar Annotations" to set forth the statistics of the birth-rate, past, present, and future, in relation to P. T. Barnum's theory that "there's one born every minute." And it will provide, it is hoped, a directory of originators of Volstead jokes, that such hardened criminals may be stalked down and slaughtered by a too patient public...
...Isle of Vanishing Men. Again, a savage island picture, the most glamorous part of which is its title. The cannibals revealed in it, a prey to the devouring diseases of civilization, are akin to Barnum's dog-faced man. Their vanishing, from the samples shown here, will not make them missed. Wildly advertised orgies have been emasculated, till all that remains is a form of nocturnal shimmying by the tribe...