Word: circus
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...professor, ominous little bag in hand, scurries for hiding through dark, deserted streets in which floodlights roam eerily over huge posters bearing his picture. Piccadilly Circus becomes the desolate crossroads of a ghost city; Waterloo Station is an empty tomb except for confiscated pets and such prohibited excess baggage as trunks, tennis rackets and a sandwich man's sign ("The Wages of Sin Is Death"). On doomsday morning, from the city's rim, four army divisions move in for a house-to-house search...
...visitor might wonder just what keeps the P.B.H. men this side of a nervous breakdown. Running a three-ring circus is a challenge, but they all seem to relish...
...Oklahoma, Mike Monroney was an overwhelming winner over the Rev. Bill Alexander, pastor turned circus-style politician...
...constantly talked of a comeback. At 50 he was still pitching semi-pro ball. In 1940, two years after he had become the ninth man voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, he was discovered by a newspaperman on Manhattan's 42nd Street, working in a flea circus. Quipped Old Pete: "It's better than having 'em live...
...they opened their first store, The Great American Tea Co., on Manhattan's Vesey Street. They used all the glitter and tinsel of a circus. The store was painted a flaming red ("real Chinese vermilion") ; red, white & blue globes dangled resplendently in its windows, a huge gaslit "T" glowed above its door. Their first ads cried: "There's good news for the ladies." They had other come-ons: on Saturday nights they handed out dishpan premiums and lithographs of babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this...