Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles Ringling, 62, one of the seven famed circus brothers, sixth to die; at Sarasota, Fla., of cerebral hemorrhage. Beginning a seven-man show (themselves the artists) in their home town, Baraboo, Wis., in 1882, they acquired profits the first season of $60 apiece, which they spent on evening clothes and silk hats. By 1890 they were competing with Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently...
...take the letter, I'll let you ride around the block on my tricycle. . . I'll let you ride around twice. . . Think of that! . . You can ride around trice on my twicycle . . I mean twice on my tricycle. . Well, then, I'll let you come to my circus next Saturday free, and its going to be ten pins for everybody else. . . I'll give you half this piece of chewing gum. . . And two of these keys and this, whistle and I'll let you whittle with my knife some day. . . No, you can't have any of my cigarette pictures...
...scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...
...Robert E. Sherwood, 70, oldest living circus clown, much impressed President Coolidge when he said that he was the first performer to turn a handspring over seven horses and two elephants. The President then replied that he used to rise, when a boy, at 2:30 a. m. so he could go to the circus. Mr. Sherwood retaliated with the presentation of the book of his life: Here We Are Again...
...aspires to write with grace and distinction tries to create an artificial separation. It should last long enough to give him the feeling that he is working in a medium as different from the speech of the man in the street as a dry-point is different from a circus billboard...