Sentence examples for to fairground from inspiring English sources

Two versions were made: in one the head spins to fairground music - intended to soften the effect - and in the other a creaking noise is heard.

They bought into the idea, which grew flimsier each year, that following a rock band from football stadium to football stadium, fairground to fairground, constituted adventure of the Kerouac kind.

It had a famous tower, three piers, an extra-long promenade, spectacular illuminations, all manner of amusements – from fortune-tellers to fairground attractions to tattooists – as well as the country's first Pleasure Beach.

Musically, however, there's no denying he has developed a peculiar genius entirely his own, his songs illuminating the American experience from the gutter up, perfectly set within arrangements that draw on all manner of native styles, from folk to fairground, juke-joint to jazz, country to church, but which all bear the stamp of Waits's unique junkyard-blues sensibility.

By any standard other than those applied to fairground fortune tellers, Griffiths' ruling was absurd, although no doubt the good lord and his supporters will view the out-of-court settlement reached by West Ham and Sheffield United – the London club will pay a reported £25m in compensation – as some form of vindication of their verdict.

In the 1960s, the "Minnesota Iceman" was paraded from mall to fairground, leaving rumors of Bigfoot, missing links and government conspiracy in its wake.

Pettie Quintana, an employee at the Holiday Inn Express in Pueblo, said on Thursday that she had gone earlier in the week to the state fairgrounds to get a ticket, but the ticket office was closed, its allotment gone.

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

His more boisterous style of leadership, supplemented by a fashionable wife and a taste for visits to fairgrounds, suggested that he might be closer to the people.

"I did the boxing booths after World War II — a show that travelled to fairgrounds — and challenged the local boxers, or anybody else who would get up in the ring," Buttrick, now eighty-two, told me.

According to Méliès's memoirs, his initial attempts to sell A Trip to the Moon to French fairground exhibitors met with failure because of the film's unusually high price.