Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sawdust Paradise. Than Esther Ralston few are more lovely, than Hobart Bosworth few more noble. Somehow La Ralston failed to be convincing as the circus Hallie whom an evangelist (Bosworth) denounced because she ran a shell game. She was arrested, paroled in the evangelist's care. She gets religion, almost loses her boy friend (Reed Howes), but inevitably wins him over to the cause of righteousness...
...tons of beef, one ton of jelly, 1,200 Ibs. of cookies, 1,200 gallons of assorted pickles, the Antarctic expedition is comparable to an army on the march. Accompanied by business managers, physicians, cameramen, dog trainers, scientists, aviators, newspapermen, the size and diversity of its personnel suggests a circus...
Skirts. Last week, His Holiness the Pope issued a thunderous edict. Modesty, he declared, is an essential part of godliness. Said His Holiness: "Early Christian women, dragged into the circus at Rome to be devoured by wild animals, were more concerned in covering their nudity than in saving their lives." Obediently, dressmakers dropped skirts a full two inches, brought their hems to a point between 1½ and 2 inches below the bend in the knee...
...mixture of bigwigs and hoodlums who attend prize fights and horse races were lacking. There was none of the suave enjoyment of a polo or lawn tennis crowd. The people at the IXth Olympiad resembled those who attend high school basketball games, minor league baseball games, county fairs, circus side shows, early season football games. Many of them can tell you, in split seconds, all the world's records that have been made during the last ten years. No Olympics are complete without a few preliminary squawks. Perhaps the reason is that, while the Olympics are supposed...
...Married. Lillian Leitzel, strong arm "flying-trapeze queen" of Ringling's Circus ; to Alfredo Cordona, gymnast; in Chicago. "We're going to entertain circus crowds as long as we live," they said...