Word: magicianly
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...Keller-Sarmiento moved the offense, Smith gave it stability and experience. Alternating between forward and midfield slots, the Leverett House senior picked up seven goals and six assists on the way to a 13 point season. A magician with the ball, Smith will be sorely missed next season, particularly in the halfback position...
Such exhortations come naturally to Foot who, in his 30 years in Parliament, has established a reputation as a highly effective, alternately fiery and witty, orator. In a recent Commons speech, for example, he ridiculed Tory Industry Secretary Keith Joseph by comparing him to a magician who takes a gold watch from a member of the audience. Said Foot: "He would take out his mallet, hit the watch and smash it to smithereens. Then he would step to the front of the stage and say, 'Sorry, I've forgotten the rest of the trick...
...even though he's heard all that before, Fadden doesn't take it very seriously. "I'm no magician," he laughs, "I'm the only self-confessed quack who works for Harvard." And then he laughs some more...
...cess, and Adyar, a suburb of Madras, where she set up her headquarters). The Victorian age had a great hankering for table rapping, poltergeists, spirit writing and spooks of all sorts. H.P.B. was a fair ly good parlor conjurer (she learned some of her tricks from a Coptic magician in Cairo), and she was quite unashamed about the use of confederates and apparatus. She specialized, rather charmingly, in the invisible mending of broken crock ery and in small gifts and chatty letters from a society of superhuman Masters who dwelt in Tibet. She was a gifted hyp notist of herself...
...virtually every major U.S. city, balloonery is, well, soaring. A cluster of two dozen rubber bubbles costs around $25, not too much more than a florid array of earthbound blossoms. At many ballooneries, the fee covers the cost of delivering the gaudy globules by a messenger dressed as a magician, a mime, a clown, Big Bird, the Mad Hatter, Groucho Marx-or even with an entire chorus line. Sometimes bubbly also accompanies the balloons...