Word: magicianly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose of an art which is better left unexplained. But reading fiction is not like watching a magician; it is more engrossing when the difficulties of writing are apparent. To any writer, to many an intelligent fiction reader, Author Forster...
...SPIDER?A murder web spun by a magician...
...Howard Thurston, famed stage magician, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famed believer in spiritualism, last week conducted a little dispute. "Prof." Thurston had said Sir Arthur was easy to fool. Sir Arthur wrote back: "Apparently he [Mr. Thurston] thinks it easy to fool his audience, but he certainly never fooled me." Mr. Thurston eagerly replied : "Harry Houdini had himself locked in a box on the stage, a canopy was thrown over the box and Houdini appeared outside. Sir Arthur made the remark that in the presence and hearing of about 300 magicians that Houdini had disintegrated his body, slipped through...
...SPIDER-The magician's murder mystery...
...SPIDER?Mystery, creeps, a magician...