Word: sideshows
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...undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences has always been a sideshow at Hopkins, and the activities of the College's notoriously impotent football team hardly that. The student body is small, 473, serious-minded, mostly preprofessional, with no mind for such collegiate capers as hazing and freshman caps. Under much the same system introduced by President Hutchins at University of Chicago, a Hopkins collegian spends his first two years in broad cultural study, may then pursue a specialty to a Bachelor's Degree or shortcut a year by starting at once after his M. A. or Ph. D. Only...
...reputable correspondent to cable openly from London that His Majesty's Government are engaged in flim-flamming the British public with a Geneva sideshow which the Government already consider a failure, was enough to make all right-thinking Anglo-Saxons hope fervently that "Augur" may be wrong...
...Blount DeMille by now have some idea what to expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...
...illustrated gazeteer of the world," despite its sideshow title is fairly complete description of each of the countries on the globe with especial emphasis on the recent changes in boundary and forms of government. A short history is included and the usual economic data with a precis of the constitution of each. The whole is illustrated with rather lurid pictures of no great importance but which help to make the page more readable. Working on the theory that present arrangements cannot be understood without showing the historical antecedents the editors have prefaced the main body of maps with about thirty...
...Hongkong, police raided the sideshow of Tin Tsoi, woman ventriloquist, who charged three cents (Hongkong) to let customers talk with her unborn child. They found Widow Tin Tsoi telling patrons that the child had often, during the ten years of her pregnancy, refused to come into the world, inviting them to ask it questions. She was sentenced to six weeks in jail...