Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circuses know better than to tease the animals or to ask the employes intimate questions. To do otherwise would precipitate quarrels in the higgledy-piggledy family that a circus is. Therefore, when the 1,800 employes of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey show received their pay in Montreal one day last week and entrained soon after for Ogdensburg, N. Y., the circus officials made no comment about the strange mounds that appeared in the bunks, strange piles in animal cages, strange packages stuffed into corners and tied under cars, all over the four-section caravan. They left the commenting...
Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Republic, last week inspected the eleventh annual French International Aeronautical Salon. He saw: French fighting planes, carrying machine gun nests fore & aft; U. S. airplane equipment, shipped by 20 firms, exhibited for the first time in a European aero show; German passenger and freight planes. He saw no German fighting planes, strictly forbidden by "he Treaty of Versailles...
Entered pompously, in this traditional emergency, Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, Clerk of the House. Gesturing in dumb show, he pointed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who then had leave to say that His Majesty would graciously permit his Faithful Commons to choose a new Speaker...
Still faintly resisting in dumb show, Captain Fitzroy was then led by his Conservative Nominator and Laborite Seconder, who jointly conducted him to the Chair. He was now the Speaker-Elect. The Sergeant at Arms, Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, could and did remove the enormous Mace from under its table and placed it upon the table...
...after that. Past the flags that marked the first mile, past the cluster of brick buildings at the submarine base, Yale moved steadily, powerfully, on a river turned into a theatre. Movie men cranking on the stone piers of the bridge photographed the coxswain throwing up his hands to show his crew that they had crossed the line. Ten lengths behind, the heavy Harvard crew, too tired to sprint, lumbered up to the bridge, collapsed. Said Yale Coach Leader: "I think the lines of Harvard's varsity boat had a great deal to do with the crew trailing...