Word: trailerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siamese twins preserved in formaldehyde), another quarter for a glimpse of Carmelita, the "Hermaphrodite." ("Ladies on one side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named Snowball, and a dark, unhousebroken Capuchin named Herman can dose a man with strange scents as the weeks pass...
Harold is a writer. Although rejected by the Advocate (a local magazine devoted to literature), he sold a poem to a Greenwich Village little magazine for a free subscription, and an article (under a psuedonym) on trailer-camping to a Western magazine for $120. That $120 has to sustain him for the summer, at the pace of a dollar...
...Germany, and after World War I formed a "Party of Artisans, Cafe Keepers and Circus Performers." He himself became its candidate for President of Germany, but withdrew from the race "to give Field Marshal von Hindenburg a chance." To any doubters among those who gathered daily around his house trailer in Sankt Pauli, Otto Witte would produce his official identity card issued by the Berlin police, stating that its holder was "a circus entertainer" and "onetime King of Albania." He refused to accept any mail that was not properly addressed to "Otto I, ex-King of Albania...
...taken down with amazing efficiency, since the cast party in Belmont could not start until this job was finished. The entire set was torn down within an hour by a thirsty swarm that gathered at the scent of "Party-party." An orange trailer piled too high with wood and people careened off into the night, and the last remnants of the party were seen at Cronin's 24 hours later--hungry at last...
Item: as superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1947-50-he was the youngest in 50 years-he was shocked to discover Academy-based enlisted men living near by in trailer camps. A midshipman's first lesson must be concern for enlisted men's welfare, he told the brass in Washington, and Annapolis of all places must set the example. He came away with the first Wherry housing units the Navy ever...