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Word: sleight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...specialty acts, always a feature in past performances of the club, will this year include ventriloquism by K. A. Perry '28, sleight of hand tricks by Robert Reinhart '29, a violin solo by A. W. Lind '29, and the newly organized saxophone sextet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSICAL CLUBS TO PLAY TONIGHT | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

Died. Reuben S. Sleight, assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; when the airplane in which he, enroute to a conference on New England flood relief, was flying from Mitchell Field, N. Y., to Montpelier, Vt., overturned in attempting a landing at Montpelier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...entertainment, consisting of motion pictures, music, magic, and refreshments, will begin at 7.30 o'clock. Pictures to be shown will include Rin Tin Tin in "The Clash of the Wolves" and a cartoon comedy. Richard Cart-wright, Boston secretary of the Society of American Magicians, will do a sleight of hand performance, after which refreshments will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P.B.H. TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE FOR UNDERGRADUATES TOMORROW | 11/23/1927 | See Source »

...frankly I am worried. Football isn't the game it used to be when I last hung up my mud-stained moleskins in the Shemokin gym. What with bilateral passes and other sleight-of-hand tricks allowed, and with the goal-posts moved back so the near-sigthed old grad in Section 43 can see them, the game is changed so a forecaster hardly dares to speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICH BRIBE LURES JOE FORECAST AGAIN INTO GLARE OF LIMELIGHT | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

...successful seasons, both as part of the regular concert program, and as the furnishers of dance music on suitable occasions. The newest addition, the Speciality Division, has rapidly won an important place in giving unusual and attractive numbers to the Club programs throughout the concert seasons, such as ventriloquism, sleight of hand, soft shoe and clog dancing, musical specialities, and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS START TRIALS TONIGHT | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

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