Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertainment by reading the story of the Nativity. The rest of the program of events includes Christmas carols, the reading of various selections by Miss Jenny Dimick of the Emerson College of Oratory, and piano selections by C. T. Leonard '23. Mr. Phillip Walker of Brookline will perform numerous sleight-of-hand tricks before the evening closes with doughnuts and cider and other refreshments...
...entertainment work, including music, sleight-of-hand tricks, story-telling, and so on, are especially desired. About 30 free entertainments will be given at the settlement houses this year...
...does not rail against mediums and spirit-rappings in genera. but clearly shows that as yet no sound proof of the existence of an after-life through spirits has been demonstrated. Every one of the physical phenomena of spiritism has been reproduced, naturally, in daylight, by magicians and sleight-of-hand artists...