Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minds to games of chance know, the typical gambler plays a "system" which is either quite nonsensical or so involved that its basic worthlessness is well concealed by complexities which have an air of being profound. There are three sure ways to win at baccarat: 1) deliberate cheating by sleight of hand in drawing a card; 2) marked cards; and 3) a prepared deck introduced by a confederate croupier into the "shoe" from which cards are drawn. Before the War an Italian gang made a big haul at Monte Carlo with a prepared deck and got away. But the confederate...
Told like an actual occurrence, in the first person, Mario and the Magician starts out quietly enough. The writer and his family, vacationing at a little Italian resort, take their children to what is advertised as a sleight-of-hand performance. Before the show is five minutes old, the parents realize they are seeing an exhibtion of hypnotism. Before the evening over the whole audience is under the hypnotist's sway. Before the final curtain murder has been done. But luckily the children think it is all amusing, delightful. A little book-hardly more than a long short story...
...Cartwright will entertain the children with feats of sleight-of-hand, while F. H. Bucks '31 has been offered by the Student Entertainment Bureau to play the piano for the occasion. Refreshments are to be provided...
...first of whom is Professor C. N. Greenough '98, master of Dunster House, who will speak on the subject of the House Plan, while James Knox '98, coach of second-team football, is to give a talk on his athletic experiences. Ellery Sedgewick '32 will give a program of sleight-of-hand tricks, after which refreshments consisting of elder and doughnuts are to be served...
...tenor banjos, trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, drums, piano, trombones, flutes and basses. The mandolin club includes mandolin, mandola, mandocellos, guitars, flutes, clarinet, clarinet, violin, 'cello, basses; in the vocal club there are first and second tenors, baritones, and basses. Also any specialists at solos on instruments or singing, clog dancing, sleight of hand or ventriloquists will find an opportunity to show their acts...