Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowing when and how to break away from the regular routine speech with an immediate answer for every question, is that which distinguishes a Houdini, a Thurston, from the magician Blackstone, the feature of this week's Keith-Albee bill. Mr. Blackstone exhibits a complete performance of the accepted sleight-of-hand tricks with the ease of Keller, but he lacks the vital touch of spontaneity...
...evening the Vagabond will try a sleight of hand trick to produce a Union card and then proceed to the Union Living Room where the author of "John Brown's Body", Stephen Vincent Benet, will talk on some aspects of modern writing...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
...Hooker entrusted last week's performance and his secrets to John Mullholland of Manhattan, brilliant sleight-of-handman, lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
...Thimblerig = the Shell Game, with three thimble-like cups, a pea, a sleight-of-hand, a gullible bettor...