Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alcoholism and other forms of neurosis, currently so fashionable on the screen, are here presented without the usual hocus-pocus and yeast-endorser's jargon...
...Daily Express, Critic John Grime was indignant because (said Grime) Disney had announced that he was going to Eire to hunt leprechauns. "... A greater piece of hocus-pocus publicity was never foisted on a realistic world," wrote Grime. Disney had carefully explained that he was going to Eire to look for story ideas for his forthcoming The Little People...
Atlanta, before the war, was headquarters for a profitable national business in hocus-pocus for race-prejudiced joiners: the Ku Klux Klan. Since the war, it has been no secret in Georgia that the Klan was trying to come back in a big way. In the past eight months there have been cross-burnings atop Stone Mountain. But secrecy is a part of the Klan's appeal-and the Kluxers kept their affairs to themselves...
Last week Tom Sawyer's amiable hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
...Toughest sound to fake is applause. And no hocus-pocus has yet matched the true click of a closing door. Result: studios keep large collections of various-sized doors to open & shut...