Word: sims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
...invade its 40-mile-long eastern cape where the holy and historic Mount towers in misty beauty above monasteries perching like fabulous castles on crags above the sea. Surrounded by flower-scented glens and gorges, veiled with pine and cypress and chestnut, are great Lavra Monastery, Vatopédi, Simöpetra, bastioned Dionysiou (which proudly possesses the brain and right hand of Saint John the Baptist) and many others, each with its fusty library and gilded Byzantine church...
Thus spoke Dante--prestidigitator, illusionist, showman par excellence, whose so-called mystery spectacle, "Sim Sala Bim," is now causing worried frowns and bewildered head-scratching at the Shubert Theatre in Boston...
...fact that Carrie Nation and even the Will Hays office couldn't find anything to kick about doesn't make "Sim Sala Bim" any less of a slambang, rip-roaring event, which makes up in excitement what it lacks in sex. You can bring your mother-in-law to see it, all right, but you'd better make sure she's got a sturdy constitution...
...only and rightful successor, to the long line of Kellers and Thurstons. Not only is his wizardry completely baffling even to the wiseguys in the first row, but Dante has the knack of setting off each illusion with settings as grandiose as Little Egypt or Barnum and Breley. "Sim Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making one of his chorus (let's call it a chorus) girls vanish into thin...