Word: hokusal
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...wonderful opportunity, this game of hokus-pokus," the New York Times mused in a 1917 Op-Ed about the newfangled concept of "camouflage," borrowed from the French word camoufler, "to disguise." Just two years earlier, France had established the world's first military team dedicated to stealth attire, after a crushing defeat at the hands of German troops convinced French generals that their armed forces should forgo their stylish white gloves and pantalons rouges for a more muted look. (Read "I Want You to Join the Army...
...high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming and J. Edgar Hoover to Alan Moorehead and Rebecca West, it boils down a huge vatful...
Take four shop-talking doctors, a renegade artist with revolutionary ideas of morality, two more, less brilliant, medicos, and a very beautiful woman. Throw in a smattering of medical hokus-pocus, a cure for tuberculosis, two cases of that disease, and a love affair. Now you have some of the ingredients of George Bernard Shaw's merry play which Katharine Cornell has brought to Boston. One of the four doctors has the new cure, and the love affair. The two cases of the disease are given to the fifth doctor and the artist. The dilemma is this; Should the doctor...
Last week Japanese women, who have endured like Noguchi's sister, became openly irate over the present condition of medicine in Japan. The country has few great physicians and surgeons. But the average of the profession is far below the U. S. average. Quackery, magic and hokus-pokus are all too prevalent...
...Paul, Minnesota capital, has a newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is the usual stodgy and amorphous compendium of local accidents, arrests, entertainments, boiler-plate hokus-pokus from New York, syndicated national news service. Like the papers of other middle-sized middle-western cities, The St. Paul Pioneer Press functions, apparently, on the assumption that few events that happen in Europe are important enough to be told to the people of St. Paul...
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