Word: sideshows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freaks in general Fellows writes with friendly sympathy. He recalls one Jonathan R. Bass, an ossified man: "He seemed well informed, was fond of conversation, and was an atheist." Once a certain fire-eating man fell in love with the bearded lady, whose place was next his on the sideshow platform. When she spurned him, his love turned to hate. At the next show he suddenly shot his flaming breath at her, singed her precious beard...
...UNDERWORLD OF THE EAST-James S. Lee-Greenberg ($3.50). By an Englishman who confesses having been a drug addict for 30 years. A somewhat rascally but euphemistic account of "the underworlds, drug haunts and jungles of India, China, and the Malay Archipelago." Net effect: like that of a circus sideshow...
...undergraduate College of Arts & Sciences has always been a sideshow at Hopkins, and the activities of the College's notoriously impotent football team hardly that. The student body is small, 473, serious-minded, mostly preprofessional, with no mind for such collegiate capers as hazing and freshman caps. Under much the same system introduced by President Hutchins at University of Chicago, a Hopkins collegian spends his first two years in broad cultural study, may then pursue a specialty to a Bachelor's Degree or shortcut a year by starting at once after his M. A. or Ph. D. Only...
...reputable correspondent to cable openly from London that His Majesty's Government are engaged in flim-flamming the British public with a Geneva sideshow which the Government already consider a failure, was enough to make all right-thinking Anglo-Saxons hope fervently that "Augur" may be wrong...
...Blount DeMille by now have some idea what to expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...