Word: legerdemain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent editorial in the "CRIMSON" mentioned Mr. Laski's remark as to the right of any and all labor to organize as it wished: and by a remarkable feat of legerdemain transformed this opinion into a mere dislike for the person of Commissioner Curtis. Although I do not know Mr. Laski personally, I feel certain that it will be a very shocking thing for him to find himself so completely whitewashed into orthodoxy, despite his manifest pride in maintaining his bizarre views...
...anecdote of feigned insanity, miss mason shows how an imitation of filial piety may be employed to extract money from innocent Westerners, M. A. Kister converts an atheist into a believer and man of power by means of a railway accident. So far there is nothing beyond the usual legerdemain of the short story; but Robert H. Chambers has achieved a more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with his hero. I am arraid that in the craze for technique the necessity of sympathetic understanding...
...Havana, Cuba; "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan Poe), Manuel Matienzo 1L., of San Juan, Porto Rico; Song, "Vittoria mio con carissimi," V. B. Kellett '18, of Hopedale; "African Democracy," Plenyono Gbe Wolo '17, of Grandben, Liberia; "Scotch Poems," George Mair '16, of Jamaica Plain, formerly of Scotland; Japanese Legerdemain, Takaharu Takamatau, Gr. Dv., of Murotsu, Yamaguchiken, Japan; "Lyrics of Love and Life" (Rabindravath Tagore), Sowendra Chandra Deb Barman 1G., of Tipperah, India; Songs, "Gerodemos" (Old Demos--the Klepht), and "Thymoume Panta to Bradia" ("Ever I Remember the Evening"), Stephenos Phrangos, of Greece, accompanied by Miss Helene Aegyptiadon, of Greece...
...last two years these gatherings have proved a great success, many men dropping in to enjoy the hospitality of the House. There will be a large open fire in the Living Room, and apples will be supplied in abundance. A special program of music and legerdemain has been arranged, and Mr. F. W. C. Hersey of the English Department has consented to give a reading, as he has come the past two years...
...held conversations on several different occasions with the "spirit" of Professor James, which proved to the former's satisfaction the fulfillment of a promise made by Professor James to give him some "sign" from the "spirit world." The public has often been fooled by false mediums, by tricks of legerdemain which cause tables to tip for no other cause than the laws of physics, and by quacks who delude the ignorant and curious because it is an easy means of income for them; consequently the public, once bitten, is twice shy; it is interested in, but not receptive...