Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacing the entire show to the blare of a circus band, Mystery Man Dante whirls through a seething inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, makes stooges disappear right and left, introduces bouncing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets, live stock of every description, and even produces beer right out of empty barrels...
...strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious...
...with the serene contempt in which all good war pilots are supposed to hold ground defenses, however strong, the first British bombers slanted down through a hole in the cloud layer one night and, crossing Berlin from northwest to south east, dropped high explosives and incendiaries amid an angry inferno of bursting shrapnel and "flaming onions." The raiders hit seven widely separated districts of Greater Berlin, including Gorlitzer Railroad Station in the southeastern industrial and freighting section. Even as civilians were dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding...
...were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft fire, and they saw no planes come down. Several blazes lit the scene after the heaviest raid and Spanish sources said hits had been made on docks, barracks, the radio transmitter, water tanks, a gun emplacement on Europa Point...
...have known. And in such a world America would perforce be carried long way on the road to regimentation. But with Allied victory this regimentation would be self-imposed and milder, we hope, than that of an America competing in arms with a Nazi Europe. In Dante's Inferno there are nine circles. It is better to occupy the second than the ninth. Donald C. McKay Assistant Professor of Histor