Word: sideshow
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...recaptured the ferocity and the coarse laughter of the fighting as well as did The Big Parade. The war stuff in Puppets is particularly weak. The rest of the picture is about an Italian master of marionettes who leaves Manhattan to fight. His wife attempts to carry on his sideshow. None of it exacts breathless attention...
...becoming selfconscious, sorrowed that others had to perform personal attentions for him, hated the perpetual lapping up of his food "like a kitty," especially longed for shirts with sleeves instead of the sacklike garments slipped over his head. Then too a sideshow was tempting the Wiegman family with money for the boy's services as a "freak." He was ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms...
From New Haven comes word that "the Yale News is in complete sympathy with the CRIMSON'S idea." The Princetonian likewise echoes the CRIMSON with an editorial statement that "the sideshow is seriously threatening to swallow the big show." And the Dartmouth undergraduate paper writes: "We agree with the Harvard CRIMSON. . . Intercollegiate football is a menace in its present form, and steps should be taken to restore it to its properly subordinate position." And the days continue to dawn without any shooting...
...Manhattan, Gabrielle (Mrs. John De Fuller), "The World's Only Half- Woman," famed circus horror, sideshow spectacle, born without legs, height 2 ft. 8 in., weight 128 lb., disappeared from her home. Her husband, "a strapping six-footer," was positive she had not been kidnapped, did not think she had eloped, was baffled...
...Author. Maurice R. Werner, newspaper reporter of Greenwich Vil- lage, Manhattan, came to fame in 1923 as the biographer of P. T. Barnum, circus man (who once offered Brigham Young $200,000 a year to exhibit himself in a sideshow). Hearing his work applauded, Mr. Werner dropped reporting, is now at work on a life...