Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Driggs is the author of four books on aviation. One of them, "Fighting the Flying Circus", was written in conjunction with Edward Rickenbacker, the American ace, and narrates the experiences of the American aviators during the war. Tonight, a number of government films showing scenes taken in 1916 and 1918 will reveal this stage of flying development. In addition, photographic slides and films taken by Colonel Driggs himself will be used to illustrate his talk...
...rumbling of trucks that startled Mansfield, Kingston, Stonington and other towns on the New Haven road yesterday was not the vanguard of a traveling circus. Neither will be the bulging baggage cars, automobiles and the general stars of an anabasis that will stream along the Shore Line during the next 24 hours. All the activity will be that of the preliminaries required before the Harvard football team can play the Yale football team in the Bowl tomorrow...
...press syndicates, wrote about "this pleasant looking little courthouse, all white and trim" and about the "Pig Woman." Everybody focused on the Pig Woman, so-called because she once kept pigs. She was the star witness for the State. By name Jane Gibson, she used to be a circus rider. She brought to court with her a small baby (called the "mystery child" because of its obscure parentage). Erratic, obese, disheveled, suffering from a mortal organic disease, she said that she was driving her mule down a lane the night that Dr. Hall was killed. She heard shots...
...Within a few hours dozens of rumors were circulating about the discovery on Butte's farm. Some vowed that it was a circus elephant that had died in the vicinity several years before; others believed it to be a hoax similar to the Cardiff giant discovery...
JARNEGAN-Jim Tully-A. & C. Boni ($2). You have seen him hauling trunks, tending bar, laying bricks, coupling freight cars, lifting circus weights, fighting in alleys; sporting diamonds, bawling from a political platform, pawing pretty girls, bouncing drunks from a night club. He is a redheaded Irishman with a chest like an oak, rumpled red hair, cracked knuckles, a throat for pints of whiskey, ears for the rumble of life. His eyes are humorous, quick, lonely. He was born in a slum, educated by existence. Perhaps he is a prison graduate, bitterly "bumped." With slight intelligence but unlimited understanding...