Word: circus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...
Received from Circus Man George R. Hayes an invitation from 500 circus performers to see their antics without payment...
Last week, in an oaken crib 52 feet long and weighing ten tons, it arrived in Manhattan on the French liner Paris. It is to be exhibited by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Madison Square Garden, scene of many a prize fight, hockey game, circus, but never before an art-lovers' nook. Later the epic in paint will go on a trip around the world and back to Paris...
...time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked taxi-drivers; a carp-eyed spinster with a goitre like a wasp's nest; a Belgian...
...Rosie Bevan (nee Wilmot) would put in an appearance. Mrs. Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...