Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cosmopolitan Club in its rooms in Holyoke House this evening at 8.30 o'clock for members and invited guests. The features will be a sword drill by the German members, shuttlecock by the Chinese, and an exhibition of jiu-jitsu by the Japanese. The American part will consist in sleight-of-hand tricks. Singing of national anthems by the national groups of members will end the entertainment...
Last year, with M. Allen '08 as chairman, the committee gave 44 entertainments. The entertainments are simple, consisting of vocal and instrumental music, reading, and sleight of hand performances. Men who are willing to take part are requested to send their names to H. F. Nash '09, Hollis...
...hall was packed with about 1200 men, and Mr. Houdini entertained them for about half an hour with sleight of hand tricks. He then produced a huge iron can, just large enough to contain him, and after demonstrating its soundness and air-tightness to a committee from the audience, filled it with water. He then stripped and gave a preliminary exhibition by squeezing himself in the can and remaining under water for one minute. After this he disappeared under water again, the water-tight lid was locked with six locks by the committee, and the curtain drawn...
This winter the Social Service Entertainment Troupe Committee will give, as in past years, a number of entertainments, free of charge, to various philanthropic institutions in the vicinity of Cambridge. These entertainments consist of vocal and instrumental music, reading and sleight-of-hand performances. A simple informality is maintained and no great ability is required of the performers. Men who are willing to take part and can give one or two evenings a month to this service are requested to notify M. Allen at the Phillips Brooks House...
...Nash, Jr., '07, is chairman, has offered the services of the troupes to over a hundred philanthropic institutions in greater Boston, and several applications have already been received. It is planned this year more carefully to restrict the entertainments, which consist usually of readings, musical numbers, and sleight of hand tricks, to those institutions that cannot afford to pay for any entertainment, and where, therefore, there would otherwise be no such diversion. Such institutions are usually homes for incurables, hospitals, sailors' havens, and poor houses. Men who have ability to entertain and are willing to do this work should send...