Word: legerdemain
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This was veritable legerdemain and prestidigitation, cried journalists in Berlin and Paris, where Professor Theremin demonstrated his box early last month. And in Manhattan last week where he demonstrated again, newspapermen continued the exclamations...
...which Governor Smith might, without legerdemain, draw is Massachusetts. Calvin Coolidge once governed it; but it has Wets, Catholics, immigrants; it sent last fall Catholic-Democrat David Ignatius Walsh to the Senate. Give its 18 votes to Smith, Smith's total becomes 262. Looking for 4 more votes, Governor Smith must cast his eyes far into the sunset. Wyoming might well turn Democratic again-but it has only 3 votes. But one step south is Colorado with 6 votes and last fall Colorado elected a Democratic governor. Give Colorado's vote to Smith, his total becomes...
...Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her, has found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect--melodrama, provincial comedy, middle Western still life, or a subtle dramatic tangle. The combination of all four is perhaps as shrewd...
First, he exhibited thaumaturgy, legerdemain and prestidigitation. Then he gave a mock-seance?only the eight grandchildren would not sit; they insisted on standing up and crowding around the medium. He produced two white pieces of silk, folded them up and gave them to the children to hold. He called upon the spirits. He begged them to make manifest their existence by painting portraits of the late President...
...ground higher than ever a man had hoisted his body before at an indoor meet. As he crossed the bar, his leg touched it, set it to tottering. Seated on the ground, Osborne looked imploringly up. Nearby, mute, sat the magic shoe. The bar, as if upheld by legerdemain, stopped its quaking, its teetering, rested fast on the uprights, 6 ft. 61/4 in. up. Thus was a new world's record for the indoor* high-jump set? one inch higher than that made by Brown and Landon in the Millrose meet two years...