Word: magic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of these qualifications is that magic faculty known to the craft as 'the nose for news.'-that is to say an unerring sense for the occurrence that is worth singling out for attention from the maze of everyday life. But almost as important as this qualification are the other ones, of good sense and high-mindedness. The nose for news is nothing if not accompanied by the capacity to discriminate as to what is fit news...
...verse, Mr. Barlow also contributes the graceful "Of Age." Mr. Dazey's "On Mt. Ranleigh" is, unfortunately, uneven; contrast "we felt the magic of far spaces" with "Its fields were divided into squares of many colors," a phrase neither pleasing nor exact. It were better, perhaps, to regard this bit as experimental or imitative, in the light of some of Mr. Dazey's previous work...
...Harvard Mathematical Club. Meeting in Conant Common Room. Lecture on "Magic Squares," by Mr. Charles E. Wilder...
...stage at the Shubert Theatre last night and a large and genuinely appreciative audience forgot the commonplace world that buzzed outside the door and lived in a world of grotesquerie and romance, rings and roses with a beggar's wallet thrown in for good measure. Mr. Macrame waved his magic wand and bade us step with him into the Land of Heart's Desire, where men dared all for the love of fair women. And his audience followed him joyously...
...Primitive Christianity," which is being given by Professor Kirsopp Lake of the University of Leyden, as a part of the Lowell Institute Lectures, will be delivered in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The sub-title is "The Gentile World. The Empire. Orientalism. Magic and Philosophy. Jewish and Christian Missions...