Word: circusing
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Last week the proprietors of a traveling circus playing Wuppertal decided to combine the talents of the district's flying streetcars with those of their own earth-bound star, a 450-lb. heifer elephant named Tuffi...
...took off, soaring across the city and along the banks of the winding Wupper river. Tuffi screamed and began running wildly up & down inside. Then, with the courage of a Dumbo but without air-force ears, she plunged through the car door into open space. A few minutes later circus attendants rounded Tuffi up as she sprawled shocked but uninjured in the bed of the Wupper 18 feet below. Overhead dangled the wreckage of the flying tram, still filled with Tuffi's startled fellow passengers...
With another gesture from Lifar, the helicopters hoisted themselves 30 feet into the air. As he paddled frantically from the ground, the giant pinwheels sashayed around each other with all the grace of circus elephants. So far, only one thing had gone wrong. Lifar had planned to have his helicopters dance to The Beautiful Blue Danube and a Berlioz march; somebody had forgotten to switch on the loudspeakers...
...material to be made into togas, had cornered 10,000 pieces of gold-plated jewelry for Quo Vadis' 5,000 extras. From Roman shoemakers, he had ordered 6,250 pairs of handmade sandals, and from the women of the Italian Alps, several hundred silky-haired wigs. For the circus scenes in Quo Vadis, there would be six fighting bulls, a stable of horses to pull 14 racing chariots, 50 lions to be set upon persecuted...
...Palace & Circus. By the time Producer Sam Zimbalist and Stars Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor arrived, Nero's Rome was as lavish as the original. Some 3,000 Italian workmen were putting the last careful touches on a mammoth reproduction of Nero's palace and a wooden replica of the Emperor's circus. A facsimile of the slimy, green-watered River Tiber had been dug, and for the single scene to be shot outside Cinedtta, a section of the Appian Way had been repaved...