Word: barnumism
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...signed up for the position. Both pitchers and catchers have been working out under Coach Mitchell for the past seven weeks, and are gradually getting into shape. Several experienced pitchers are in the line-up, including R. H. Booth of Exeter, O. H. P. Baldwin of Lawrenceville, and Dwight Barnum of Middlesex. The nine catchers include such experienced men as H. S. Gans, H. F. Leith, and W. G. Seaver...
...which ends a week from Friday: Gore: 1. S. Morris: 2. C. C. Colby: 3. E. M. Weld: 4. H. Bowker: 5. L. Levinson. Standish: L. W. Stern: 2, C. S. Smith: 3. R. B. Shneider: 4. J. Gerstein; 5. C. Vremer. Smith 1. R. M. Woolen. 2. D. Barnum. 3 L. H. Gordon: 4. C. Grayson. 5. E. Bauer...
...position of dictator of theatrical spectacle in America. After a number of staggeringly magnificent musical extravaganzas (Aphrodite, Chu Chin Chow, etc.) he introduced the Chauve Souris, the Moscow Art Company, Duse, The Miracle. He has the combined temperaments of the no-limit poker player and P. T. Barnum, plus dominating artistic instinct. He has become thereby a unique figure in a world where eccentricity is the primary requirement...
...well-known ideas and proposals has been a disappointment to many who expected something inspiring, something really constructive, especially in view of the huge prize offered. Its opponents have not been slow to label the whole contest as "one of the most skilful advertising dodges since the days of Barnum, and one of the cleverest pieces of political propaganda in the history of the United States." They point the finger of derision at the "impartial" jury who selected the winning plan--six of whom, out of the seven, were members of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. And everyone...
...Barnum. Joice Heth, Jumbo the Great, Tom Thumb, "The Great Model of Niagara Falls, Real Water," the "Fejee Mermaid,"-yet "Hamlet without Hamlet would not be more impossible than the Museum would have been without Barnum...