Word: acrobatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...column Saturday, New Haven was just as chaotic and traditional this year as it was before the war. The drunks were there, so were the raccoon coats, and the Taft lobby was jammed solid. The open trolleys were out in flocks on Chapel Street, too, with their ex-acrobat conductors swinging along the sides picking up fares...
...this way-we are reorganizing our Berlin circus. You see, I am an acrobat. But it is about our three bears. They were evacuated to us from the south and now, poor things, we have no way to feed them." Long, crimson-tipped fingers were spread in an appealing gesture of helplessness...
...Army captain sputtered: "Yes, of course, but that would be impossible, oh, quite impossible." But the acrobat persisted...
...Army, an extraordinary order went through. Next day three bears came to dine on leftovers from the Kommandatura dining room. In Luisenstrasse, hungry Berliners gaped at the scene. Next day came a more extraordinary order: food was to be taken to the bears at their quarters, close by the acrobat...
...were a dewy-eyed debutante. For another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...