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...April 23, King George "will press the button that will light the lights, start the wheels and will declare open the gigantic hundred-million dollar advertisement of virtually everything the British Commonwealth produces for sale." In other words, the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, six miles from Piccadilly Circus, under construction for two years, will have been officially opened to the public...
...independent, anti-Socialist ticket against Nicholson, the Conservative, and Fenner Brockway, the Laborite. His campaign was a colorful whirlwind (TIME, March 24), described as "Churchill's circus." He aimed to bring out the large non-voting electorate to choose him in a rock-ribbed Conservative stronghold. He must split the Conservative vote to beat the Laborite whom he officially opposed, and he had the backing of so influential a Conservative as Lord Balfour...
...start was preceded by an aerial "circus." Every use to which the airplane has been put was demonstrated. Nine distinct types of machines showed their capabilities The completeness of the exhibition and the fact that no accidents occurred was considered as displaying the rapid progress which the science of aviation has made...
...MIRACLE ? Max Reinhardt mingles medieval spectacle and religious atmosphere in a glorified circus...
Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...