Word: circusing
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...surprise, it was a smash hit. The Wagner-starved public queued up for tickets: "It was as if Callas were singing Lucia''' Result: the Met decided to follow up the two scheduled Rings with a third cycle starting next week, the first such three-Ring circus in any regular season in Met history...
Eugenia is a curious production scarcely in keeping with James. It has been staged as though Tallulah were in the presence of nothing but waxworks, while she herself performs as if completely surrounded by leopards. Turning a pastel into a circus poster, Tallulah, her personality crackling like a whip, her voice sounding like a bull fiddle, gurgles and snorts and snarls. It is all on occasion forceful, but in general it may well set a record for incongruity that only something like Mae West as Snow White...
...shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton), helped oversubscribe Southern California's Olympic contributions...
...keep the series going for seven years beyond that. In future weeks Gerald will preside over the same lively blend of the whimsical and the wacky. There will be cartoons on such artists and inventors as Henri Rousseau, Robert Fulton and Samuel F.B. Morse: the adventures of Dusty, a circus boy; comic versions of famous historic moments (Nero Fiddles, The Trojan Horse); etiquette lessons by a well-meaning but maladroit fop named Mr. Charmley...
...Middle Ages must have seemed sometimes like a miraculous three-ring circus. Saintly men and ladies flew through the air with the greatest of ease-sometimes even their personal effects followed them, as did the walking stick of Joseph of Cupertino-and sometimes, like the great St. Teresa of Avila, they had to be held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into...