Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from high school. His 16 years in vanity publishing have taught him that the business can be both legitimate and profitable. Exposition gives its writers a contract whose terms are frank and clear, sends out review copies and news releases, tries, like all publishers, to build publicity and promotional hocus-pocus (autographing parties, press interviews, radio appearances, etc.). For about $2,000, Exposition will give an author some 2,000 copies of a fairly well printed book, try to sell it to bookstores and to lists of friends and prospects supplied by the author...
...enjoyed your article on Fulton Sheen. He portrays Christian Truth in his programs only because he omits the relics, superstitions, traditions and nonBiblical hocus-pocus of the Roman Church...
...Georgia Burke)-to a tree house in a wood. It is not only a revolt against ugly materialism, but an escape from reality. The trio are joined in their tree by a judge; and the quartet sits about, lonely and lost, wishing and dreaming aloud. After some dime-novel hocus-pocus breaks in on their dream world, Dolly goes home to face reality, and her realistic sister Verena is humbled into seeking love...
Teele thinks much of this statistics' argument is 'hocus-pocus.' "How can you always tell whether a placement office has put the man in the job or not?" he asks. By way of demonstrating his point, he tells the story of a student whom he once referred for a job to the "Boston Herald." The "Herald" interviewer sent him to a friend at the "Boston Globe." The "Globe" man thought the student had great potentialities and tried to find him a job with a publisher. The publisher had no openings, but remembered a friend on another Boston paper. This...
...flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes place in the never-never land of Hollywood farce...