Word: magicianly
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...investigator of alleged supernatural phenomena. Dunninger can tip tables, conjure up voices and ghosts, make casts of invisible hands, as well as the slickest mediums. But he claims no supernatural powers, relies only on his 25 years of practice in prestidigitation and his knowledge of science. It was to Magician Dunninger that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini left secret messages before their deaths to test the possibility of communication with a world of spirits. One medium's version of Edison's message: "My niece, Betty. Where are you? Boop. Boop. Boop...
...genius at offensive strategies. Coach Shaughnessy promptly put the old fight into last year's wooden Indians. Stanford's marveling alumni wondered if they had hired a magician. But it was not magic but music that turned Stanford into a winning team. An accomplished pianist once headed for the concert stage, Coach Shaughnessy works out his plays to music. Basis for his system is a waltz rhythm: e.g., on an off-tackle play, the back getting the ball counts one-two-three steps, turns on his outside foot for balance, hits the line of scrimmage at the point...
Dante is not the old-style of magician who merely palms cards. Although he proudly boasts there isn't a blush in his show, Dante himself has a captivating stage personality and with a slight change of subject matter could fit well into a "Panama Hattie." Of course there are bound to be slow moments (like the finale which features Uncle Sam and a blonde subbing for the Statue of Liberty), but you will never be able to forget, that you are watching the world's greatest magician...
Handsome, snow-haired Mrs. Harry Houdini pshawed at suggestions she might communicate with her late, great magician husband. "Plenty of other women say they have heard from him but I have not. And that," explained she, "does not sound like Houdini...
...present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill is one, Beaverbrook the other. . . . Churchill is regarded as the very spirit of Britain, while Beaverbrook is spoken of with awe as something between a magician and an avalanche. . . . But there is another man, neither Liberal nor Tory, who . . . would demand the right to lead the nation now if Churchill were liquidated by a German bomb. . . . Mr. Ernest Bevin, former farmer's boy, self-educated boss of the Trade Union movement, and Minister of Labor...