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...screeching of monkeys. The Garden's roof was a maze of ropes and wires, its floor a carpet of earth, sawdust and manure. In the air blue with tobacco smoke hung an odor as unmistakable as it is complex? acrid wild animal mixed with sawdust, hemp, tar, leather and gunpowder???the immemorial smell of Circus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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