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Natural freaks-the Blue Man, the Half-Man-Half-Woman, the One-Eyed Man et al.-are carnies, and treated as equals. The conditioned freaks are barely tolerated as "gaffs." Among the gaffs, the "geek"-usually an alcoholic who earns his bottle by biting the heads off live snakes and chickens-is the lowest form of carnival life. The Jungle Girl, who must crawl around a cage of snakes and make animal noises, is only a little higher. But sometimes the jungle girls can double usefully as "sticks"-employees who pretend to be tips in order to attract others...
Another instrument which crowds the cabin of the Atlantis bears the unprepossessing name of Geomagneticelectro-kinetograph (affectionately known as the "geek") and measures temperatures difference in the water by exploiting changes in the earth's magnetic field in a long wire loop dragged behind the boat. Using the principles of this instrument, the Institute experimented last fall on the current that runs through the Florida straits by hitching up electrodes on either end of the Western Union cable that runs to Havana and measuring the potential between the ends. Calculation with the potential gave the amount of water that flows...
...announcement by Oilman James Wymore of Salina, Kans. gave shock-resistant Hollywood a jolt: his daughter, Cinestarlet Patrice, 23, was going to marry her leading man Errol Flynn, 41, who has been saying for quite a while that he would marry Rumanian Princess Irene ("The Geek") Ghica, 20. Flynn, now in the midst of a court squabble over alimony payments to first wife Lili Damita, had a characteristically playful comment to make on Patrice, who is very nearsighted: "All I'll have to do is hide her glasses and she'll never be able to find...
Free beer, cigarettes, ice cream, and soda will also greet all fun-seeking Freshmen who Geek to Sauders for the much-heralded affair. Corn-Cob pipes may also be given away as seventies said the countries. Purchase of a percent program will cover the admission...
This ultimate pit of carnival-life degradation fascinates shrewd, up & coming young Stan Carlisle (Tyrone Power), but it takes Stan nearly two hours' playing time to learn that in spite of all his talents he was born to be a Geek. Stan is one of the most wholehearted and resourceful heels yet to leave a print on the U.S. screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate...