Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Powys as a Mumbo-Jumbo-Brummel...
...Barnum. Joice Heth, Jumbo the Great, Tom Thumb, "The Great Model of Niagara Falls, Real Water," the "Fejee Mermaid,"-yet "Hamlet without Hamlet would not be more impossible than the Museum would have been without Barnum...
...Stanley and Livingston, there came a sudden increase in foreign trade, particularly in wild beasts. Two enterprising young men, Messrs. Barnum and Balley engaged a stock company of particularly well-dispositioned wild animals, and took to the road. Later out of business courtesy or for advertising purposes. Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts and the natural history course became overcrowded. By such means were lands terrestrial familiarized; going to Africa was thought no more of than going to get a milk-shake. Then within a few decades the South and North Poles were "exposed" and it was found, much...
...Jumbo" was the greatest and most sentimentalized of circus animals. Barnum succeeded in bribing away from England this "largest known" elephant. Jumbo's first six weeks at Madison Square Garden attracted $336,000. After he was killed by a train accident, he was stuffed and given to Tufts College, which still has Jumbo's head as its emblem...
...Werner's book is a record of American popular taste during the century of the nation's adolescence. The unsophiscated public loved to be fooled, and Barnum, more than Lincoln, " was typical of the time." Between the picture of his wife, Charity, and his elephant, Jumbo, was the America which Europe believed to be uncivilizable...