Word: circusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...
...known as the Light Leader) of the London Times. In its characteristic tone, half-bulldog, half-maiden aunt, the Light Leader thus saluted Eros' departure: "From this moment onwards nobody can doubt that there is a war on, for London is the hub of the universe, and Piccadilly Circus is the hub of London, and Eros is the hub of Piccadilly Circus. How then can the universe revolve, when its hub's hub's hub is missing? . . . Until Eros returns to his perch . . . all of us . . . will be wearing an invisible lozenge of black crepe...
...oval tent big enough to hold a three-ring circus was pitched last week in an Allensville, Pa. hayfield. No circus did it contain but the biennial world conference of the Mennonite Church. A plain-garbed, plain-spoken sect holding the tenets of 16th-Century Netherlander Menno Simons, the Mennonites shun attention and cities alike. At Allensville, surrounded by the rugged mountains of central Pennsylvania that hem in the fertile and tranquil Kishacoquillas Valley their ancestors settled before the Revolution, they felt perfectly at home. The 7,000 delegates came from Argentina, Tanganyika, India and all North America...
...Piccadilly Circus one day last week newsboys were heard crying: "Step right up and get it-TIME, the banned book!" Many Londoners stepped up, because, only a fortnight before, much had been made of the banning of TIME in England...
...little better. Last week's Wodehouse, both in patter & pattern, they found as engagingly inane as ever. For Uncle Fred in the Springtime has the usual bubbling dialogue, the same jolly old set of characters, the same intricately improbable plot clicking along with the dizzy precision of a circus...