Word: hocuspocus
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Last week Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 55, returned to Manhattan from a well-earned vacation in Europe. He could not possibly call himself a drone. His income was many times more than $10,000 a year, but he got it by no hocuspocus. He no longer wrote Socialist tracts, but he was doing more in behalf of the working people than his tracts ever accomplished. All of which was due to the fact that Joseph Patterson was editor & publisher of the newspaper with the largest circulation in the land, the tabloid New York Daily News, which last year earned...
ROGER BLOOMER-John Howard Lawson-Seltzer ($1.75). Produced last March by the Equity Players, Roger Bloomer at once gave rise to acrid critical warfare. "Arresting, daring, stimulating, fine," cried some. "Trash, hocuspocus, ineffective nonsense," muttered others. No doubt the publication of the play in book form will arouse an equally lively discussion. The story is that of a dreamy kid from Iowa-his adventures, struggles and failures with life and New York. A novel dramatic experiment well worth reading even by those who will be most irritated...