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...Humbug & Hullabaloo. That was a far cry from the "Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome" which Barnum had christened the first Garden, an abandoned depot of the New York Central & Harlem River Steam Railroad at Madison Avenue. The Barnum spectacles and others went so well that in 1889, Garden Owner William H. Vanderbilt got together with Barnum, J. Pierpont Morgan, and other Manhattan tycoons, tore down the old building and built a new $3,000,000 one. On opening night, Edward Strauss played waltzes to the audience of "old dowagers, ancient bucks, fresh brides, dewy buds, young blades and sprigging braves...
Readers heard a new tone in the voice of London's Socialist Tribune. In its "declaration of war" which charted its course for the new year there was a more rhetorical and more commanding note. Tribune promised to devote the year to "lambasting the Tories, exposing humbug, discrediting frauds. . . . We do not propose to be hustled into a new authoritarianism by the shrieks of the Communists...
...constantly seasick, was pelted with sticks & stones by irate Albanians, was bitten by "a centipede of some horror" in Greece, lived "on rugs and ate with gypsies . . . and performed frightful discrepancies for 8 days" in the Balkans. Like most Englishmen abroad, he grumbled continually. The Bosporus was "the ghastliest humbug going," Corfu was a "tittletattle, piggy-wiggy island," and Venice was filled with palaces, pigeons, poodles, pumpkins, and-"to keep up the alliteration"-pimps...
...Hartley Shawcross wanted to know if the day-to-day activities of the disarmament enforcement agencies proposed by Russia would still be subject to the veto. Of course they would, said Vishinsky in effect. Then, said Sir Hartley, "let us not foist this humbug on the world...
...corked flask, was ether, disguised with aromatic essences to hide the "secret." The operation, conducted by Dr. John Collins Warren, frock-coated chief surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital, made a profound impression on doctors and medical students in the small, gloomy amphitheater. Cried Dr. Warren: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug...