Word: circusing
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...which Jean Cocteau and others forged paintings. The night bearded Monty Woolley opened in Manhattan in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Porter gave a party for him. The host was the last to arrive, and on his arm was a stout, middle-aged lady (recruited from a circus) whose beard was a little longer than the guest of honor...
...There are many items which the Democrats have added," Morse persisted. "I call the attention of the Senator ... to the calliope which will tag-end the circus." Morse had the last word, but Government employees got their four-day weekend...
...member of the London County Council, "why we ever took it on in the first place. The blasted thing's been a target ever since." The blasted thing was London's gleaming statue of Eros, God of Love. Time after time, on nights of revelry in Piccadilly Circus, while lovers ogled each other beneath Eros' outstretched wings, the fire brigade has had to remove hats from the god's wreathed head or frilly unmentionables from his poised limbs...
Before setting off with wife Eleanor Holm on a four-month round-the-world tour, Columnist Billy Rose explained: "My world has been bounded by the flea circus on 42nd Street and the statue up at Columbus Circle, and I figure it can do my perspective nothing but good to take a hinge at how the other 99.9 percent lives...
Said Western's President Terrell Drinkwater: "We have reached a point in air transportation where we must decide whether the main tent or the sideshows are going to support the circus. Anything which does not contribute to safety, speed and comfort is a costly frill with which we can well dispense...