Word: circusing
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...Arizona in 1912, the musical's story concerns two grafters who attempt to take possession of a circus...
...married at 16, but left her husband a year later and then joined the Cole Bros. Circus, singing with the sideshow band. "I saw the whole country," she says. "I saw America like the millionaires didn't see it!" The Gangsters Were Quiet. In the 1918 flu epidemic, she was seriously...
...have a good deal of trouble finding a plot, but they finally settle on a story about a young dressmaker, played by Dany Robin, who becomes amorously involved with Michael Auclair, a small-time crook with, we are told, a brilliant mind. Hildegarde Neff is also around, as a circus rider. both she and the pony are bare backed...
...business while still a teenager. He went broke once, before he got enough capital to withstand the heavy losses on the days the bettors "beat the books." No mobster or furtive tout, Bill now has his own Hill House, a palatial office building in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus. As the 1955-56 professional football got under way he looked to another busy year of booking bets. He expects to handle $16,-800,000 in soccer bets, $51,800,000 more in horse-racing wagers, $9,800,000 on dog races-a total for the year...
...placid, two-ton rhinoceros escaped briefly from a circus in Rio one evening last week, jamming traffic on busy Avenida Atlantica. Amid the tangle of stalled automobiles, the word darted around as erratically as a horsefly in a stable: "O Golpe! The coup!" In jittery Rio, something as commonplace as a traffic snarl could touch off rumors that the army was taking over, and the exclamation Golpe! really meant "This...