Word: magicianly
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...monetary magician set out from London with a starting capital of ?75 (the legal maximum which may be taken out of the country), after being well briefed by the British resident agent of an international ring. On deplaning in Geneva, he exchanged his pounds for Swiss francs at the official rate of 17 Swiss francs per pound. He picked up a silk shirt and a silver cigaret lighter, reserved one Swiss franc for carfare. Before going on to France, he handed the remaining 1,200 Swiss francs to the ring's Swiss operative (France does not permit travelers...
...bird's initial appearance was at the Colonial Theatre, where, after a brief word of explanation to the baffled audience as to the nature of the Ibis and the Harvard Lampoon, Blackstone produced the mounted creature from an empty box. The magician's call for photographers indicated that the press had been tipped off to the event...
...minutes later the comics received an enigimatic call from a person who identified himself only as "G.G. Toale," warning them that the Ibis had just been produced in the Opera House by Orson Welles, playing the part of the Japanese magician in his new Mercury production, "Around the World...
Unfortunately--or perhaps fortunately--for this reviewer, Arthur Margetson was unable to take his place in the lead role of Fogg at last night's performance. The unbeatable Orson, who has only a bit part himself (that of a magician in a Japanese Circus which holds forth on the stage for ten minutes) took over after dire warnings to the audience. Despite his failure to remember a large percentage of the lines, he brought down the house with his completely jocular case on the stage...
Clarence Darrow, dead these eight years, failed for the eighth time to keep an annual appointment. He had promised amateur magician Claude Noble to "manifest himself" if he could. Noble stood on a Chicago bridge from which Barrow's ashes had been scattered, held up a picture, waited for Darrow to knock it out of his hand...