Sentence examples for fairground booth from inspiring English sources

Her daughter was a medium, a very good one, but wasn't interested in sitting in a fairground booth all day.

The exhibition's designers say it will be part university lecture, part artist's anatomy lesson, part Victorian fairground booth.

In "The Fairground Booth," a seminal essay on the importance of clowning and a kinetic theatre, the avant-garde Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold argued that the clown's vulgarity, noise, self-sufficiency, and movement should liberate theatre from the reading room.

There was no such thing as a cinema in their day: the films were intended to be shown in fairground booths alongside bearded ladies and dancing bears".

Like another young rising star, the Olympian Billy Joe Saunders, Fury Jnr is steeped in Romany fighting folklore, a descendant of bare-knuckle scrappers who settled differences in fields and fairground booths.

It was painstakingly collated by the eminent late historian George Speaight, and experts say it provides a significant record that traces the development of Punch and Judy's performances as marionettes in the Restoration era, to their 18th-century reinvention as glove puppets in fairground booths and on London streets and as children's seaside entertainment in the 20th century.

"I am not amazed that people kept remarkable samples of Buchinger's calligraphy and microscopy, " Mr. Jay said — neither was I — "but I am surprised that small, undistinguished announcements of his appearances at fairground booths and rooms in public houses also survived".

A former fairground booths fighter who, as a north London teenager, would take on all comers at Barnet Fair in order to supplement his meagre wages as a coalman, he was, for two decades, the righthand man of promoter Frank Warren - even though the garish trappings of the modern era, with its outrageous ring entrances and rock music, were alien to him.

While Buttrick fought most of her bouts in fairground booths - "roll up, roll up, who dares to challenge The Mighty Atom?" - Adams is a product of a more enlightened age.

These people on Twitter giving him all this abuse, where are they in life?" Tyson comes from a long line of fighting Furys, most of whom scrapped without gloves in fields and fairground booths.

Allen has always been partial to fairground-booth conjuring and crystal ball gazing; Baumbach faithfully goes there too.