Word: occulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although professing to be a scientific organization members of this department will proudly profess that they own a magic mirror. Producing this flendish article the Fogg conjurer will let you examine it until you are satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected...
Ever since they fell into goose-step behind Adolf Hitler millions of Germans have been waiting for what Der Führer calls "the occult forces of World Jewry" to be exposed in "their citadel, New York." Last week came what Nazis took to be the long-awaited break. For what seemed to them exceedingly occult reasons, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia abruptly took action which had the effect of barring Germans from being granted New York City licenses as masseurs, locksmiths, itinerant musicians, operators of newsstands, keepers of fruit or soda water booths, bootblacks on outdoor stands, operators of employment agencies...
...Meanwhile in Manhattan what again seemed to Germans "occult forces" caused a number of Communists to sneak aboard the S. S. Bremen as that German liner was about to sail with such distinguished passengers as President Roosevelt's toddling grandson William Donner Roosevelt. Six daring Reds proceeded to tear down and throw into the Hudson River the Bremen...
...from Washington for the Bremen flag incident and Federal action to force a license for "Mr. K." from Mayor LaGuardia, the only result was that the Mayor said he "would abide by the State Department's decision" if it should rule on "Mr. K." To Germans it was occult that New York Representative Samuel Dickstein should have risen in Congress latt week to call Realmleader Hitler a madman, a mur derer and the protagonist of an insane theory of government. They saw the in visible hand of Jewry in a proposal by a New York City alderman to forbid...
...fact that Doris Manners-Sutton, born in Australia, is of Irish-Breton parentage. A scrawled statement of her own, reluctantly given, contains all her publishers have been able to discover about her. It runs: "Manners-Sutton, Doris. Biographical sketch. . . . Wandered about the world. Always interested in the occult. Has 'the sight.' Spent a year collecting . . . information for Black God. Nearly eaten by cannibals. Believes sincerely in magic and the power of created thought. Has written all her life...