Word: houdinied
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...nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini...
Business Manager for Mrs. Harry Houdini Hollywood, Calif...
Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
Reopening the Union Guardian: Why, it would have taken Houdini to open that bank...
...Houdini was witness to one of the exhibitions of mediumship. Having fastened Margery in a box with only her head and arms free, Houdini felt along her arm with his own hand until it had passed through the hole in the box. Then the voice of Walter, the spirit, intervened. "What did you do that for, Houdini? You--! Putting up a plant like that on a girl. There is a ruler in that cabinet...