Word: magicianly
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...dreams he is a bellhop in the hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely...
...Less agile than Acrobat Frees was A. L. Bedel, built like the beer barrels he formerly inspected for the U. S. Government. To attract crowds he hired "The Great Chandu," a magician. A Chandu come-on: to tear up a picture of a bass, unfold the torn bits to exhibit an intact picture of a bigger bass, and announce: "If you like this trick, vote for Bedel instead of the fish...
...Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee was condemned by King Arthur's Court to be burned at the stake, he saved his life by a Yankee trick. Knowing that a solar eclipse was imminent, he predicted the end of the world, got himself a saving reputation as a magician. Last week, with another solar eclipse imminent (April 7), another court scratched a match, lit a fagot for the Yankee from Connecticut. This time it was the Connecticut Public Welfare Council, which proclaimed: "The typical Yankee seems to be disappearing from the Connecticut scene." According to the Council, returns...
Standing in the rain on a bridge spanning Chicago's Jackson Park Lagoon, Magician Claude Noble, hymnbook in hand, intoned to the watery sky: "Clarence Darrow, I am here in fulfillment of your pact made with me. If you can manifest yourself, do it now." It was the second anniversary of the death of the famed lawyer and agnostic. On the bridge whence his ashes had been scattered waited Darrow's widow, son, and a cluster of friends. There was no manifestation...
...great problem has been in their disposal. The House magician, the Janitor, the electrician, and one of the waitresses received their share, and a number of rabbits were smuggled into the rooms of other students. But several still remain in Barnes's room, contentedly munching away at the curtains and clean laundry...