Word: legerdemain
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...Then there are the middle-of-the-road people," he continued, "who are as dangerous, but in a more subtle way, as these conservative relies of the Middle Ages. They practice a legerdemain with the words 'scholarship', 'faith', and 'creeds', with a result that they finish with the general impression that everything is all right--let scholars study; let believers believe, but don't have any controversy about anything. Unity is a good thing, but truth is a better thing. Comfort is a good thing, but truth is a better thing, Clergymen must get over the idea that their main...
Nevertheless that either one of the opposition parties should win a clear-cut victory seems well-nigh impossible. Then, if the Conservatives fail to retain their majority, the world may be treated to the spectacle of political legerdemain resulting in a coalition of strange associates, soon to be followed strange associates, soon to be followed by another general election. At any rate England seems to be in for an interesting time...
...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...