Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected by the beam of light...
...greatest conspiracy against the Constitution in the history of the United States) should now suddenly be attempting to rush to Constitution Worship. If this statute were a Republican political dodge it would be intelligible, but it appears to be something more insidious. The Legislature is requiring us to say 'Hocus pocus' which I regard as a petty personal indignity...
...Jones-White Merchant Marine Act of 1928, said the report, "has produced unconscionable exploiters intent upon wringing every possible penny from the public purse." Taking potshots at what it termed "corporate hocus-pocus," the report bristled with sardonic subheadings. Samples: Holding Companies are Devices for Fraud; The Corporate Web of I. M. M.; The Munson Maze; The Grace Enigma; The Deceptive A. G. W. I. Corporate Network; Millions Due the Government in Default, but Contractors and Lobbyists Continue to Profit...
...next afternoon in Tokyo. Last week at these simultaneous hours, in these respective capitals, the foreign ministers of three great nations announced that at last they were honoring China by raising their diplomatic representatives in Peiping from ministers to ambassadors. But Chinese were not to be fooled by any hocus-pocus of the diplomatic clock. They rendered thanks, not to Britain, not to their traditional friend the U. S., but to their recent enemy Japan. For Secretary Hull's State Department, though it might rise at 3 a. m. to issue an announcement, still slumbered at the diplomatic switch...
...elections last week, candidates of the End Poverty In California party took a terrific beating, won only four out of 18 contested offices. From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week would prepare...