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...became trendy." Less slowly, perhaps, dogs began defiling the capital's streets and unsettling its residents. "Dogs run about wildly, causing difficulties' for municipal sanitation," complained a health official. "There are even instances of hooligans training their pets to chase women, children and old people." Only circus troupes, scientific experimenters, police units and foreign residents, all of whom must pay $5 for vaccination and registration, will be permitted to keep their dogs...
Throughout the campaign, candidates for the Cambridge School Committee have said they will strive to end the circus-like atmosphere that has dominated the body's proceedings for several years. If they live up to this promise, city schools, will surely run more smoothly. Many of the concerns voiced in the national debate over public education should hit home in Cambridge, and the Committee should work toward solutions to classroom problems rather than straying into personal feuds...
...beautiful day in New Haven was single-handedly this art a Crimson squad that, without a doubt, played its finest hockey of the year. At the same time, she preserved a tie for a Yale squad that couldn't even have made the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey traveling circus...
...capital of California, with signs saying GROCERIES NOT GAMES! and OLYMPICS ARE OUTRAGEOUS! In Southern California, some social reformers were also indignant. "They're big sports, all right," said one bitter member of a group called the Technocrats. "Bringing Germans and Japs to town! Down with their damned circus!" The heads of state or royalty of the host countries had opened the ceremonies at the nine previous modern Olympics, but President Herbert Hoover, confronted with the worst domestic crisis since the Civil War, decided to stay in Washington. "It's a crazy thing," he reportedly told his intimates...
Second, the statement shows a deliberate lowering of scholarly standards to the level of a circus master P.T. Barnum's slogan, "give the people what they want." In the name of honesty, however, it might be more appropriate to change the title of his book and article to Thinking About Crime--Except for the Vast Ones Committed by the Mafia, the U.S. Government, Large Corporations and Respectable Middle Class Citizens...