Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because they expected the speeches to be much fun, or because they thought the meeting would advance the A. Y. C.'s advertised aim: passage of the $500,000,000 Murray Youth Bill to establish a permanent Federal Youth Administration. They had come to see a sideshow. They had their eyes peeled for one Murray Plavner...
...almost any Saturday during the season U. S. football fans can see a game as exciting as the Rose Bowl game. But California boosters have built Pasadena's Tournament of Roses sideshow into the country's No. 1 sport extravaganza. From Thanksgiving to New Year's Day the majority of U. S. citizens, from Polish mill hands to Park Avenue dandies, babble Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl. This year's babble was noisier than usual. For this year's game was one that U. S. fans have been waiting for for over a year...