Word: barnumism
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...little flame wavered higher up the side of the cavernous tent in the big lot at Hartford, Conn. The thousands of women and their children, and the scattering of coatless men massed in the bleachers, sat quietly, second after second, watching the high-wire performers of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show On Earth. They breathed the circus smells of peanuts and tigers, in the hot afternoon air, and listened to the thumping circus music. Some of them watched the harmless-looking little fire crawling up the canvas...
With spangles, and paint, and hot dogs, and clowns, and acrobats, and everything else connected with the big top except barefoot boys watering the elephants, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show On Earth" is now in Boston--through Sunday--in all its pre-war glory...
...York City lost a major landmark -a gregarious, white-maned, 70-year-old supersalesman, one of the last of the P. T. Barnum era-Joseph Paul Day. Auctioneer Day had sold more real estate in & around New York City than any other single human being in the memory of man. As far back as 1935 his transactions were totted up to $1.5 billion. And years before he died last week in Manhattan's Flower Hospital, he had become a millionaire-and a legend...
...made this radio announcement are certain that Barnum was not wrong. They are Joe Gentile and Ralph Binge (TIME, March 22), also perpetrators of The Early Morning Frolic (Mutual's Detroit-Windsor Station CKLW), one of the most impudent shows on the U.S. air. They were only trying to be funny, but some 100 listeners were in no mood for joking. They wrote in asking for the remedy. There...
...astonished. Thomas Edison demonstrated his talking machine to Peter Cooper, and the boys copied that too. They used their telephone diaphragm and the cook's rolling pin, which they stole while she was in the laundry. They got the machine to say "Hello," were irritated when P. T. Barnum withdrew his offer to pay $10,000 for a machine that would really talk...