Word: sideshows
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...whites from every desirable acre, they are now scattered deep in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp. They live in evil-smelling thatched shacks perched on stilts, fish in the Everglades' black sluggish waters, hunt deer and wild turkey, make a little cash as vegetable pickers, hunting guides, sideshow attractions in amusement parks. Their chief recreation consists of listening to phonograph records, drinking a mixture of moonshine and Sloan's liniment. A Seminole marriage is complete when the bride's family has provided a shirt for the groom; the groom's family...
...Dionne quintuplets, lustily growing, have fulfilled every promise save one: the contract their father made with a Chicago World's Fair promoter, three days after their birth, to ship them to Chicago as a sideshow. Last week the nursery, under the administration of Dr. Dafoe and a board of guardians appointed by Ontario's Attorney General, had piled up nearly $30,000 profit, a large part from newsreel contracts. The Parent Dionnes and their other five children, in the old farmhouse 100 yards away, were living far better than in the days before Mother Dionne labored five times...
...Brighton, England barroom. Their mother, an unmarried barmaid, sold the infants to the proprietors, a family named Hilton, for exhibition purposes. The Hiltons' daughter married one Rothbaum who changed his name to Meyer Meyers and took the twins to the U. S., where their stage and sideshow appearances earned enough for a mansion at San Antonio, Tex. and a portfolio of securities...
...loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death the martyred hero of the fascist "Leather Shirts." a nationwide organization fostered by Lemuel's canny friend. Shagpoke. Pitkin's Birthday is made a national holiday, and Shagpoke's leather...
...cream ranging between 1,100 and 1,200 calories per day. After a week she had reduced 2⅜ lb. to 142⅜ lb. The three expect to continue their "diet derby" until the month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight...