Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Materials. The 1943 circus economics are well in hand. Its foresighted buyers had a year's supply of canvas for the 77,000-yard big top and 40 smaller tents. They anticipated the loss of Manila by laying away 73 miles of rope-also a year's supply. The animal market is fine: the Big Show always has a backlog anyway. The clowns (who buy their own makeup) use hundreds of pounds of strategic zinc oxide and glycerine, but they hoarded enough for the season, too. There is a real shortage of silk tights and stockings...
When he woke up, he thinks he screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...
When he woke up, he thinks he screamed. A kind old lady with a dog heard him, and before his head cleared there was a big red truck, and ladders, and a rope. He reports that what hurt most was his rescuers' benevolent sneers; he swears he's learned his lesson and will never go near Beacon Hill again...
Thereafter, except for more fanfare in the way of a magnificently jumbled United Nations pageant, the show offered many thrills but no surprises. Its starred newcomer is fragile Lalage who, hanging by an arm to a rope, flapjacks herself an incredible number of times in the upper air. With a two-cycle, five-man act, the perennial Wallendas outdo their past achievements on the high wire. As of yore, The Flying Councellos leap, Elly Ardelty stands on her head on the flying trapeze, Massi-milliano Truzzi juggles flaming torches. Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop...
...began to quicken. Women appeared at the doors of the almost identical, bleak, boxlike houses that line the town, the lesser wooden shacks; children and dogs ventured into the rain. At the entrance to the tunnel of the Heisley mine, the thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes and the red of their lower lips showing through the layer of dust and grime. They looked like tired blackface minstrels...