Word: magically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yellow Magic. To back up these warlike words, Chang Tso-lin was hastening last week the advance southward of an army commanded by his son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. As his troop trains rumbled into the province of Honan, little papers by thousands were found strewn along the tracks. When Chang's soldiers read them, they discovered with terror that a mighty brotherhood of magicians, the Red Lances, had imprinted the papers with curses. "Whoso enters Honan to fight her defenders," read the curse, "shall suffer the withdrawal of the protection of his ancestors. Beware...
...entire army halted. Frantically young Chang Hsueh-liang telegraphed his father, Chang Tso-lin, to send still more potent magicians from Peking to break the curse. Soon, by special train, these gentry arrived. They advised that each soldier should break the curse against himself individually by tying a small "magic rag" to his rifle and wetting it with "enemy blood...
More advertisements re-whetted jaded appetites in 1926 and 1927 -"DANCE MAGIC, Jahala the beautiful" ... "Will Every Marriage End in Divorce Within Eleven Years?" . . . "Must the American Theatre be Salacious to Live?" ... "What a Nice Girl Can Do." . . . But still the contents remained comparatively pure and the circulation grew...
Even this wild effort at modernity, however, cannot save the staleness of a good idea gone wrong. Victor Trench might have been a memorable figure, but he is little better than a strong silent man who is rather dumb. How his hatred of women melts before the gentle magic of Effie's home-making, how his better instincts are aroused in the struggle to protect her, how, when she is dead, he feels her spirit urging him to stick it out--all this makes a thoroughly bad novel, and nothing else...
...advent of evening, when he may listen enraptured, to the annual Sanders Theatre Concert of the Glee Club, to begin at 8 o'clock. Here he will hear, among other charming renditions, Gluck's "Two Choruses and Ballet from 'Orpheus'", and Mozart's "O Isis and Osiris from 'The Magic Flute'". To the Vagabond who is not historically inclined, and who, at 12 o'clock, is not entirely worn out, the following lectures will be of interest...