Word: blear
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...Valenciennes, France, topers sipped blear-eyed one midnight last week. Suddenly they stared aghast as a lion bounded in at the door. Some ran; four stayed, one laughing loudly, saying, "I've seen them before!" The lion took a leg of mutton from the counter, stalked out the back door. A tiger, escaped from the same circus, ate an entire lamb in a butcher's shop, was captured fast asleep...
Ringmasters in long red coats and stovepipe hats; white stallions more graceful than swans; blear-eyed elephants performing feats of incredible sagacity; chariot racers, trapeze artists, ladies in spangles who wear jeopardy like a flower in their hair, sword- swallowers, snake-charmers, clowns in shreds and patches, fat women, thin men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth...
...Blear-eyed elephants. (Page 15, column...