Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost everywhere the old Roosevelt magic worked; in Batavia, with 1,767 registered Democrats, 424 bought tickets to hear a dinner speech and hundreds more were turned away. By last week he had picked up 200 upstate delegates; he expected to have the full majority of 510 (out of 1,018) by the Sept. 21 nominating convention...
...phrases." Most young bibliophiles "take sides" pas sionately when they read a book, regard less of whether they understand all the words, but young Hecht managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn to fetch back a photograph . . . usually [of] a woman who had undergone some unusual experience...
Juniors and intermediate offspring leave the Union at 9:15 a.m. to picnic for the day at Magnolia Beach, after which the juniors will return to Cambridge for a magic show and the intermediates will join their seniors in Essex square dancing...
...caretaker in London's rambling Victoria and Albert Museum, and the treasures he watched were not his. Finely fashioned furniture from another century, antique jewelry as delicate as a butterfly's wing, miniatures from Persia, figurines of ivory and jade from lands whose very names were magic-John loved them all and hated to leave them at the end of a working day. Little by little, beginning back in 1930, he developed the habit of taking a few of the smaller bibelots with him as he left for the Chiswick house he shared with his wife Mary...
Musical Momist. What is Liberace's magic? It could be merely the irresistible appeal of his shining mediocrity. But there is also his quality-which comes out in his bounciness, his sweet smile, his nasal voice, his my-oh-my prose style-of being just a big little boy. And a good boy, too, who would never swear or drink or leave his poor old mother while he ran off with some young hussy. Liberace is fully aware of this appeal. Says he: "Unfortunately, there are too many lonely mothers around today, deserted by their children when they need...