In other words, that P.T. Barnum is right and a lot of us have apparently learned nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sesame Street' turns 40!: What did we learn? | EW.com] Reference

TO P.T. Barnum is accorded the coinage of the term "stick-to-itiveness," a strong synonym for "pertinacity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [PLUCK AND PERTINACITY] Reference

Mary were to be the witnesses, and after that the four were to go to a private room in Barnum's Restaurant for the wedding supper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

In this area I’m afraid that P.T. Barnum is correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco | Dr Vino's wine blog] Reference

The show, called Barnum's Funundrum, runs from July 14-18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elephants March Through Downtown LA For Ringling Bros. Circus] Reference

GRACE: Hey, Leonard, I know you were called Barnum in a circus person.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2008] Reference

In the old world, reviewers have called Barnum THE characteristic American man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws] Reference

Here is an actual scene from "Barnum", in which P.T. pitches woo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-03] Reference

Three years later, Mr. Coleman had another show, "Barnum," coming to Broadway.    From Wordnik.com.  [As a Music Contractor, His Job Is the Pits] Reference

Guild's production of "Barnum" in 1985 as a 14-year-old member of the ensemble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference

When "Barnum" opens Friday, she'll no longer be in the ensemble but center stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Charleston Gazette -] Reference

So why not harness all that and go right to the thing itself, as with the musical "Barnum"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

SHOGREN: Barnum says he can change course if needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Parts Of La., Recreational Fishing Reopens] Reference

'He's played out!' was the brief reflection of Barnum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

That is, Barnum, Veil and Vickeroy were, and Barlow and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

( 'That will take very well,' quoth Barnum to himself.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

It is set up in a show-case, just as Barnum would do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, just as phony as it might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erin McKeown Reinterprets the American Songbook] Reference

Capps is more showman than crusader, more Barnum than Buchanan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Excerpt: 'Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest To End Baldness'] Reference

When this conversation was over and Barnum had paid for all the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

The Sells Brothers and the Barnum Show were having opposition in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

In 1857 it was heralded all over the land that Barnum had failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference

Or, as he has said half in jest, "P.T. Barnum without the elephants.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man And The Myth] Reference

He thought it made the piece sound like a Barnum and Bailey production.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Years Of Mahler's 'Symphony Of A Thousand'] Reference

'The idea!' replied Barnum, mildly, but with a droll, merry light in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

People flocked to Barnum's museum to win the capital prize; Barnum reaped a harvest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Barnum approached me, saying, "Been up to some more of your tricks, have you, Billy?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

That night Dr. Hopkins announced to his guests that Barnum was there with the smallpox.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

No one but a Barnum or a Bailey would send one a bunch of hippopotami as a token of regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Barnum went on musing, but I kept feeling of my ground and found I was still on "terra firma.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

Hear him tell it, he set Barnum up in business and loaned the Ringling boys their first money.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story] Reference

The smallpox had left old Barnum pretty weak physically, but had evidently not weakened his will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference

'Barnum!' he cried, 'you infarnal old humbug -- that California golden pigin is a darned swindle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference