Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during the past two years FHLB Commissioner John H. Fahey has warned that every type of financial insti tution has been making "reckless" loans, that the "unsound wartime realty boom" could have but one end: a postwar wave of foreclosures that might make the last depression look like a sideshow...
...blood among some Barnum & Bailey sideshow performers produced a dressing-tent brawl in Kansas City involving the fat lady, Baby Betty, Sword-Swallower Patricia Smith, The Great Shackles, and a hula dancer. (The midgets ran out.) For hitting Baby over the head with a pop bottle, Swallower Patricia was fined $20 by a city judge. She said it was worth it. Shortly 500-odd-pound Baby sued the swallower for $3,000. The bottle had hit her so hard, she claimed, that "all bones, muscles, tissues, nerves and my entire body were bruised, contused, lacerated and sprained." Old Fashioned...
...second feature "Obliging Young Lady," is a sideshow of irrelevant wisecracks, slapstick tangents and in one scene character actors are material for a mild case of hysteria...
...special sideshow to these "Little Olympics," the Argentina Auto Club has challenged U.S. auto racers to a 14,000-mile dash from Washington to Buenos Aires-via the Pan American Highway to Mexico City and Panama, by boat to Venezuela, thence through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and across the Andes to Buenos Aires...
Under the impact of the shows, run on successive days (with new motorcar model exhibitions as a sideshow-see p. 76), the eyes and pencils of 500 newsmen reeled. For in switching a big part of their vast productive machinery to making implements of war, G.M. and Ford (like Chrysler) have gone in for a more bewildering variety of products than they ever made before. News stories of the two shows were crammed with lists and statistics, from pinhead-sized ball bearings to four-motored bombers, passed over the new automobiles with a once-over-lightly...