When they reached New York, the men persuaded him to go with them to the circus in Washington DC, offering him a generous wage and the cost of his return trip home.

When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band.

When Harry is caught cheating circus attendees on the midway, Brad calls him on it and fires him, finishing the fight Harry started by throwing him into a puddle of mud.

When the circus came through Springfield, Bart recognized him and brought him home to rid himself of Nelson ( who had been taken into the Simpson home by Marge ).

He recalled: " When I was five I wrote a song about the rain because I loved the San Francisco drizzles, and later I wrote about a dog because I couldn't have one, and a clown because my uncle was a circus performer, and when I was eight I wrote a song in the Saddle " about a cowboy in the desert watching the stars at night and thinking about God because I often looked at the stars and tried to picture Heaven ", inspired by seeing Roy Rogers and hearing Dale Evans give her testimony at the civic auditorium.

When the traveling circus leaves, the Tramp remains behind.

When the Ringling Brothers ( Alfred T., John, Charles, and Otto ) were planning their own circus, they invited the Parson Brothers to join them in 1884.

When visiting a circus in Halifax with which Martin Van Buren Bates — another enormously tall person — was travelling, Anna was spotted by the promoter and hired on the spot.

When six year old George Denbrough's paper boat is swept into a storm drain, It tempts the boy by conjuring up a circus in the drain and murders him.

When they ran another circus season in 1887, true to the typical hyperbole of the day, the official title of the circus was called " Ringling Brothers United Monster Shows, Great Double Circus, Royal European Menagerie, Museum, Caravan, and Congress of Trained Animals ".

" When heckling it, the MST3K crew lampooned it as being in a public library and featuring a " giant circus mirror.

When this circus came to Atlanta in the late 19th century, few Atlantans wished to see a Northern-biased painting that glorified the defeat that would lead to the destruction of their city.

When Lisa and Nelson return home, they find Nelson's father, who Bart found working at a freak show in a circus.

When the elephant went on a rampage during the circus visit to Trieste, Scaramanga witnessed a policeman kill him.

* 3DC: Dumbo ( 1977 ) Narrated by Paul Frees ( with a " circus calliope " playing in the soundtrack ) ( Includes the songs: " Casey Junior " and " When I See an Elephant Fly ")

When Tonho meets Clara, a charming itinerant circus girl, all of life's possibilities open up for him.

When he is not performing, Josh lectures on the circus arts.

* When someone stole a bag containing the gate money, which Sid Preston had left on a table beneath a small air vent, it was theorised that only a contortionist from the local circus could have entered the room.

When the circus switched to travel by train they began by using flatcars from the Pennsylvania Railroad, which turned out to be hazardous because the Pennsylvania Railroad's cars were in poor shape.

When finally confronted by the circus vendors, J. B. refuses to accept Nickles ' urging toward suicide to spite God or Zuss ' offer of his old life in exchange for quiet obedience to religion.

When Evans saw the fire, he signaled that the band should play John Philip Sousa ’ s “ Stars and Stripes Forever ,” used in the circus as the “ disaster march ,” indicating an emergency.

When the circus was bought by Barnum and Bailey, it became the winter headquarters of that circus.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.