Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tully's Reply Sirs: A letter appeared in a recent issue of TIME [Sept. 26] which attacked me as the writer of Circus Parade. My veracity, my artistry all- all fell under a barage of words. . . . This gentleman finds fault with me because I did not specifically name the caboose as being the last car on the train. I called it a coach. A caboose is also a coach. Even a railroader knows that...
...will also entertain chance visitors to Cambridge and serve to take their minds off the game. Then, if we lose, it will not matter so much; and the bystanders will go home feeling that the game was merely a side-show in the circus, and that the circus itself (Harvard) was rather a jolly and zestful and snappy and "College" place after all. Warwick Potter Scott...
Shubert--"The Circus Princess"--8.15 o'clock...
...wandering into out-of-the-way places, Daniel Streeter's latest literary and nomadic side-light will afford amusement enough to warrant at least a hasty reading. It must be admitted at the outset, nevertheless, that the word, "side-light" has not been misapplied. Then we wonder what a circus would be with out its side-show; enough for some, no doubt, but there would be many more who would clamor for the sight of the freaks, hidden under the smaller tent...
...know, it's a funny thing," he went on, still in an equine frame of mind, "most people don't realize that bareback riding is by far the most dangerous part of the circus, much more than trapeze swinging. You can get a terrific fall by landing upside down or a horse when there's no horse there...