Word: magically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine, serves to goad Peter on through his bad luck. Complications arise when her second suitor, Jake, who is a traveling salesman, arrives on the scene of action. This role is built around the sleight-of-hand ability of A. H. Stafford '26, who will play it, and his magic will provide much of the excitement...
...Magic...
...York World last week burst forth with pages unique to U. S, newspapers. These pages were called the Red Magic Section and were advertised prior to their appearance as pages personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic...
...merely led him to discover hundreds of commercial compounds made from the lowly potato, the peanut, and the clay of the South. The prayer of the South to have the monotony of corn pone and "side of hawg" replaced by more palatable dishes is being answered through the black magic of Dr. Carver; and if that is not divine it is at least commendable...
...good to be true. In style and in form she imitated in it the mannered seventeenth century and her characters emerge through a screen of rare words and colors. In her new book, to be called perhaps A Venetian Glass Nephew, she dwells partly in a realm of magic. She has made scholarly investigations so that her descriptions of the black art are accurately in tradition. She chooses as one of her characters the roguish Casanova?a background character only, I believe...