Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable and constructive reform. Its proposals are diametrically opposed to those of the McKellar bill. Whereas the latter would place the appointment of fourteen thousand higher-class postmasters permanently under Senate control, the latter would take such appointments entirely out of the Senate's hands. Although providing no magic formula through which efficient government service can be realized, it is infinitely preferable to the perpetuation of a system which has undermined government administration for over three quarters of a century...
Three Yardlings signed up for magic, two for pigeon raising, three for palmistry, one for polemies, one for genealogy, one for the study of humor, and three for numismatics, the science of coin collecting. Ceramics or the study of pottery, with two enthusiasts, is one of the latest subjects to appear on the sheets in the Union...
...first press conference of the week in the Oval Study next his bedroom where he told an audience of ten correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark...
Most elaborate of the dance sequences is hoofed by Astaire, Burns & Allen at a country fair. After trying their fantastic toes on turntables, rolling barrels, slippery slides, the trio trip into the magic mirror room, become stumpy, stilted, wide & narrow by turns. The climax is a mirror that clips them off, leaving only disembodied dancing legs. Reginald Gardiner, whose stage repertory includes imitations of ugly wallpaper, effeminate French railway trains, weltering bell buoys, contributes one soul-bursting scene as an aria-minded butler tossing inhibition to the wood winds and singing a tenor solo from the opera Martha...
...first year Yale beat Harvard 13-0 in spite of the soggy underground which held back Mal Stevens and other fleet-footed Yale backs. But Ducky Pond just loved it. He sloshed through for 67 yards and touchdown, Yale's first touchdown in the Stadium since the afore-mentioned magic year...