Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Rembrandt, "The Evangelist," was auctioned to Circus-man John Ringling for $78,000. The difference between the values of these two paintings is partly sentimental, partly esthetic. These and 35 other paintings were in the collection of the late Charles Chauncey Stillman of Manhattan. Their auction brought a total...
...modern "go-getters." But the book itself is more interesting than its contents. It is the third in a series called "The American Panorama." The first two, far better books, folklore rather than fantasy, were Run, Sheep, Run and Gypsy Down the Lane. Author Williamson, onetime hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newsgatherer, wrestler, linguist, social worker, Harvard student and African explorer, has French, Irish, Norwegian and Welsh blood. Unless this is his autobiography he may be said to have imagination...
Leys then shipped for Singapore, where he taught dancing for a while at a hotel. Later he joined an Italian circus on the waterfront, and finally achieved the honor of being head of the checkroom for the ball which was being held in honor of the Prince of Wales, visiting there. During all this while Leys was losing time, while Plumer was racing on to New York...
...Browning circus is set with a background of sweet-scented boudoirs with fancy fripperies and doo-fangles...
...sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which there really is no precedent. . . . There is no pretense possible that these spectacles are for the purpose of ventilating the processes of justice...