Word: sawdusted
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...initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed cloak, tricorn hat and heavy chain of a British Lord Mayor. Then...
...greenhouse, 19 x 8 ft., has insulating walls consisting of two iron sheets with the 6-in. space between them filled by tightly packed sawdust. Only the south side of its roof is of glass. Heat & light are provided by ten 500-watt lamps which hang close over the plants in double rows and can be raised as the plants grow higher. A thermostat turns on the lights if the temperature drops below 62°, turns them off at 68°. Even a little sunshine keeps the insulated structure warm enough to keep the lights off. On the average...
...girls' dresses, hair ribbons. Pretty Mrs. Lehman twisted her hair in two braids, wore a frilly white dress with red and blue polka dots, silk stockings, socks. Most of the newsmen's wives were brazenly barelegged. At a table decorated with clowns, acrobats, elephants and five sawdust rings, they all tied bibs about their necks, gobbled their dinner, whooped when ice cream cones appeared. After dinner they sucked thumbs while a private wire brought them bits of foolery from the correspondents' dinner. Between broadcasts Mrs. Harold Keller, wife of the New York American correspondent, skipped rope...
...patiently pecked for details, finally satisfied themselves that an axing had occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...