Word: hoop
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Habitual patrons of Maestro Heckler's West 42nd Street establishment well knew the star performer who jumped through hoops, pushed a toy train, danced, juggled, kicked a ball and ended every performance by waving the flag of the Irish Free State in the manner of George Michael Cohan waving the U. S. flag. He was a bright red flea with black, roguish eyes, much larger than most male fleas. Few of his admirers knew that Paddy was not an Irish flea: he was found on a German sailor in Hoboken. Last week Dr. Heckler exhibited his fleas in Carbondale...
...audience sounded like rain on the roof. Two attendants, discussing the play outside the door of the dressing room number, parted hastily to admit Alice Brady, the Lavinia Mannon of O'Neill's long but not tedious "Mourning Becomes Electra." Miss Brady manoeuvred around adeptly in her black hoop skirts. Questioned about her agility she replied...
...mythological panorama of his people's fate, was promised magical powers to save. He was carried to the centre of the world ("anywhere is the centre of the world") on the top of Harney Peak in the black Hills. ". . . Beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. ... I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering...
Knee (1890) buried the Indian's dream in blood and snow. Black Elk leaves his story there, concludes: "I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth-you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead...
...story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...