Word: magicianly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Examine photographs of all candidates for the Presidency. Pick out the one that shows the most dynamic gesture, the most vigorous expression of face. It needs no magician to tell which candidate's picture you hold. It is the picture of Robert Marion La Follette...
...defend his confrère. The two Premiers had a heart-to-heart talk. After various conferences, Mr. MacDonald was seen with a wan smile, for his exertions on behalf of Edouard had caused him excessive fatigue. He declared that neither he nor the French Premier was a magician-"we cannot wave a wand and accomplish miracles." But he declared that they were both, substantially, in agreement...
Animadverting upon the Stinnes ch?iacter, Harden writes: "Does broad, wild, smiling Nature delight him? I am not sure. I rather believe that if a magician had whisked him to a high Himalayan plateau he would instantly have begun studying its geological and economic possi- bilities...
...Egyptian papyrus of 1600 B. C., owned by the Society, the oldest scientific book in America. The roll is over 15 feet long, 13 inches high, and written on both sides. It deals with the medical and surgical practice of the Egyptians. The author was not a quack or magician, but a serious medical scholar. The deciphering of the papyrus by Dr. Breasted was made doubly difficult by technical terminology, used by medicoes then...