Word: circus
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...raid shelters, where over 1,000,000 people regularly spend the night, had become so standardized that many shelter Christmas parties were elaborate communal affairs with mass harmony singing, skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting a neon sign "HAPPY CHRISTMAS." In most shelters a costumed Santa made his rounds with small gifts, but festoons and tinsel had to be given up in subway-platform shelters because the air blast from the trains blew the flimsy stuff away...
TOPSY TURVY CIRCUS-Georges Duplaix-Harper...
...that Krupa isn't way out in front. Well, he's not. As a matter of fact he's not even second. And the reason for this is the fact that Krupa has finally settled down to playing good drums with his band, and quit being a one-man circus. Buddy Rich, on the other hand, is playing flash, technique, and noise, all over the place. He's with Tommy Dorsey now, and he's ruining the Dorsey band just the same way that he ruined Artie Shaw two years ago, and Joe Marsala before that...
...world seemed to find a new interest in life. Unable to face man's inhumanity to man, artists and gallerygoers agreed that war was the time to concentrate on good clean animals. In Manhattan what began as a coincidence seemed turning into a circus parade for escapists. Items...
There are a clown who has worked several summers with a circus, a cowboy rope spinner, a handwriting expert, two palmists, and two complete puppet shown...