Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constance Bennett, as Carla, the alluring Russian spy, strives vainly to convince us that "Marx brothers hocus-pocus" was a thing of the past, specifically of the World War era. We can believe many things, but we cannot swallow this story. Carla passionately loves Rudi, who is in the intelligence department of Austria, and she pursues ugly pseudo-Gypsies so that she may give them important messages to take back to dear old Russia. She writes cryptic notes with invisible ink; she is always just about to cross the border; she sees the dirty fingernails of a Russian soldier with...
...hocus-pocus in the departments of Chemistry and Biology which results in this unpleasant combination of single credit and intolerably heavy laboratory assignments has several unfortunate effects. Those students who do the work conscientiously, assimilating the material thoroughly and receiving a good mark, are forced either to neglect their other courses or to spend so much time on their various studies that they become, in the purest sense, grinds. It is not at all uncommon to find men who are taking two heavy laboratory courses, a Physics course with a reasonable laboratory, period, and some reading course for distribution; such...
...squad, an assistant spy shoots the Viennese secret agent severely enough to keep him quiet till the War is over. After Tonight is a slow and thoroughly affected picture, but it contains as much talk about codes as any current editorial page and this helps give it the proper hocus-pocus atmosphere. Good shot: the mutual surprise of Miss Bennett and Gilbert Roland when they meet after the War, he in a station agent's cap, she accompanied by a small, solemn child...
...transferral of credits on a rational basis, recognizing that for some men a year spent abroad may be of great value. This would make it possible for these men to get credit for an entire year's work in a reputable European school, without going through the hocus-pocus now in vogue...
State insurance commissioner is in ordinary times a job much like the job of state bank commissioner: super-auditor to see that no one plays hocus-pocus with money that the public lays away for emergencies. The March bank holiday, which boosted bank commissioners to jobs approaching economic dictatorships, gave a similar boost to insurance commissioners. Runs on banks led to runs on life insurance companies (by policyholders who wanted to borrow on their policies or surrender them for cash) and runs on insurance companies led to an insurance half-holiday: death and disability benefits, matured endowments and annuities continued...