Word: tented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweeter, yes far sweeter, than this rhythm or this metre is the way the ladies treat you at the Tent. (Tent Tent...
Eleven-year-old Uldine sat within the enchanting tent. She fidgeted, became still, swayed in her seat and slid from underneath grandpappy's hand . . . started forth toward the coaxing smiles and silvery sounding voice of the revivalist . . . out into the aisle . . . straight to the altar and down on her knees before Aimee, wanting to know how to be a Christian...
...Barker was written by Kenyon Nicholson, young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer...
...Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME, May 10); Robert, son of the late Charles, sings opera in Munich; wherever the circus of late years has gone, a private dining tent, with an English butler, has been set up alongside, in case one of the brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius, many times doubling by investment their income. Charles was the most picturesque of all, a sentimentalist. Said...
...actors in the colorful drama enacted under the Japanese lanterns in the dim aisles of the Yard. But two hundred years ago, Commencement Day was the occasion of a general jollification among the populace of Massachusetts as a whole. Drawn not by the main, or academic tent, whose attractions at this time consisted chiefly of orations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, but by the side-shows clustering around the big top, the countryfolk and townspeople flocked to Cambridge, and choked the quiet precincts of the town and college until, we are reminded, the place was nothing less than Revere Beach...