Word: wallendas
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...Manhattan but only served to irritate his fellow Kansans who felt that such subjects were best left untouched. In 1932 John Ringling gave him permission to follow the "Greatest Show on Earth." The result was a spectacular group of canvases showing herds of elephants, the Flying Codonas, the Wallenda Family, Baby Ruth, the fat girl...
...Balancing Wallendas still bring sweat from the most jaded pores, are themselves visibly relieved at the conclusion of each performance. Year and a half ago their impossible, top-heavy, quivering pyramid on the high wire brought a scream of horror from 3,000 spectators in Europe when everything toppled. Balancing poles and a chair crashed down into the arena. Two Wallenda brothers caught the foundation wire neatly. Another Brother Wallenda caught it with one hand, caught his sister Dorothy, who was falling clear of any possible support, with his legs, squeezed her in a scissors till the ground crew brought...
...Wallenda Troupe, high wire performers. Two Wallendas stand on the wire, a pole upon their shoulders. On the pole is a chair. Standing on the chair is another Wallenda. Standing on the shoulders of this Wallenda is the fourth (female) Wallenda. Spectators gasp when the chair jerks dangerously, look apprehensively at the 20 attendants holding a canvas for poles, chair and four Wallendas...