Word: tinsel
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...Tinsel. Beatty's collapse left only one railroad circus-Ringling-in business, v. 26 in 1940. Through most of the U.S., circus day, with its "glittering galaxies of prancing pachyderms and death-defying daredevils," has vanished like the throngs through Barnum's Egress. Of less than a dozen truckborne, one-ring shows that remain, only a handful still play outdoors; all but a few are leaving trails...
...either unavailable or exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman in Manhattan last week, "but TV gets 'em first...
...House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack and finished painting in the hospital at Denver. The print showed a snowscape of St. Louis Creek...
...Cinemactor Menjou advised: "If men would pay more attention to appearances, there would be fewer divorces. When a man goes around in a baggy, ill-fitting suit, looking something like a fugitive from the Bowery, it's no wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints for husbands: 1) take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves, 5) always wear a vest with a single-breasted suit...
...added that among his "flying saucer" observations were: milkweed seeds and spider webs; sun reflections on weather balloons and sunblown tinsel paper...