barnstormer
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This was not the boring, tactical, chess-like match-up some pundits predicted but a barnstormer, living up to the pre-fight hype from fans and promoters.
From BBC ● May 18, 2024
When Obama misidentified the city he was in, the flub was attributed to a long day by a nation-trotting barnstormer, Jamieson said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2022
"Craig’s final film as the diva of British intelligence is an epic barnstormer ... delivering pathos, action, drama, camp comedy ... heartbreak, macabre horror, and outrageously silly old-fashioned action," The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw wrote.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2021
Swimming: What a barnstormer for the British swimmer.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2021
Epitaphs for Two Players I. Edwin Booth An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a barnstormer in California.
From The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay
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