Word: circusing
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...clumsy lurches. Later, when Roosevelt becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems like five solid minutes while the point sinks...
Married. Woolworth ("Woolie") Donahue, 51, Manhattan man about town, heir to a $15-odd million slice of the five-and-dime fortune; and Mary Hartline Carlson, 37, blonde and bouncy bandleader on TV's Super Circus in the mid-1950s; both for the third time; at Woolie's estate in Calverton...
CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. The free-flowing antics of a troupe of clever Cantabrigians demonstrate that successful humor need not be sick or bitter, just terribly funny...
...that time Him was the most futuristic of plays, a theatrical circus aping a carnival world. Cummings' only full-length play is still as exotic and volatile as the brightest contemporary drama. The poet's perceptiveness and wit, conveyed by over 50 characters in 21 scenes, saturates every inch of the Theatre Company of Boston's tiny stage...
...Musikriter is the brainchild of a short (4 ft. 9 in.), roly-poly, fortyish divorcee named Lily Pavey, who had only a year and a half of formal schooling. A former circus clown who could play 17 different musical instruments, she has spent the past 14 years developing her invention in a cluttered flat in South London. She hit on the idea one day while working as an invoice clerk to support her family. To relieve the boredom of the job, she took to singing while she typed and was suddenly seized by the thought: "How much more interesting...