Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world's most colossal enterprises ruled...
Robert Reinhart '29, magician, will appear at the Union at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow night in the regular Sunday evening entertainment offered there. Reinhart will talk on "The Aspects of the Magician's Life", and will illustrate his talk freely. He will also relate the history of sleight of hand artists and has promised to expose some of the famous Indian rope tricks. Reinhart has appeared on previous University occasions, having showed his tricks at the Instrumental Club concerts...
...Lind '29 will render a violin solo and J. S. B. Archer '31 will be the tenor soloist for the evening. An exhibition of sleight-of-hand will also be performed by Robert Reinhart '29. Each club in the organization will make two appearances, rendering two selections each time...
...varied are the requests received at the Student Employment Office that Harvard men would need almost a universal talent to satisfy The demand completely. Ventriloquists, sleight of hand performers, and experts in Ju Jitsu, are only a few of the special artists asked for from time to time Requests for expert accountants, advanced Greek scholars, experienced house painters, furnace men, and life guards help to swell the list of possible employments...
...Lubradovitch and Bachus found it easy to deceive Bezi and Leppig, while the Wisconsin backfield performed sleight of hand behind them and beat Notre Dame, to the extensive surprise of all sports experts, by a score...