Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggested recently that by an adroit sleight Britain might be granted the blessings of a decimal coinage. A comnittee of the Federation of British Industries is urging that a 20% increase in value be added to the penny. There would then be 10 pennies to the shilling and 200 to the pound; a fair start at decimals for Britishers long wedded to "crowns," "farthings," and other odd lot coins...
...alluringly the uses of advertisement. Managers of theatres once obtained publicity by purchasing the services of some penurious gentleman, shaving his head, and seating him, haughtily tailored, in some famed cabaret, with a blurb for the show tattooed upon his naked poll. Last week a bouillon company evolved a sleight even more alarming. An army of ragged sandwich men was sent into the streets, armed with bundles of red feathers upon which the name of the product was printed in black. Each feather had a hook. The sandwich men hooked them to the backs of passersby...
...exhibition of soft-shoe clogging, a line in which he is a well known specialist. He is also leader of the Banjo Club, and plays in the Jazz Orchestra, which has a place on the program. During the intermission Phillip Walker '25 will give a specialty act in sleight of hand...
...success of A. H. Stafford '26, whose sleight of hand tricks have been a great success at concerts this season, has caused the clubs to be on the lookout for a man with a specialty vaudeville act which will add to the variety of their performances. A good sleight of hand trickster or an expert juggler is especially what the clubs are looking...
...Sleight of Hand Exhibition by Mr. Richard Cartwright...