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Word: circusmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fired by their pressagent's persistence, the circusmen pushed, shoved, squeezed and bedeviled the little elephant up the station steps and through the narrow doors of a monorail car that was already crowded with passengers. The car 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Fledgling | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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