Word: barnumism
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...Maybe so, but I ain't so drunk I can't see what's goin' on. They're tryin' to fool the American people. That's what Barnum said, the American people likes to be fooled. Can't trust anything you read in the newspapers, all printed upside down. Them words they're usin', that's just to confuse people. Why in hell can't they say it in English...
From across the Canadian border a Confederate band rode into St. Albans, Vt., robbed the bank and made its president swear "loyalty" to the Confederacy. In St. Louis, Federal boats were burned at the levee. In New York City, 15 hotels and Barnum's Museum were set afire in a vain effort to burn the whole city to the ground. In Louisville there was an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Vice Presidentelect Andrew Johnson, and in Chicago, Hines himself arrived to direct "an armed rebellion of thousands of Copperheads." What happened there was to happen many times to Hines...
Biographer Marberry wastes no time shoring up this literary rubble. Instead, he focuses on the flamboyant poseur who fashioned it, a man with the instincts of Barnum, the imagination of Munchausen, and the verbal aplomb of W. C. Fields...
Died. Edith Conway Ringling, 84, widow of Circus Founder Charles Ringling (who died in 1926) and board chairman (since 1950) of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus; in Sarasota...
...coronation (which TIME, June 8 depicted so graphically): Is Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey really the greatest show on earth...