Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production occasionally becomes too slow, and too nearly a literal-minded play. It would be much more real if it were less realistic. Apparently Producer-Director Korda was afraid to stylize the picture completely and so slowed up the lines for the general audience. These lines were meant for sleight-of-hand delivery; too often the players draw a diagram of how the rabbit got into...
Incipient trouble was averted Wednesday when the highly controversial movie "Walter Mitty" was removed from the bill at a local theatre to avoid possible censorship of a gambling scene in which certain illegal sleight-of-handeries were employed...
Wonder coach at the rustic and little known College of Western Maryland, Richard Cresson Harlow was appointed head coach at Harvard on January 7, 1935, to the dismay and discouragement of a Cambridge weary of football losses. In seven years of looping defenses, double shifts and sleight-of-hand offense, the prestidigitator from Westminster put the Crimson back in the Eastern football picture and in the process built himself a reputation as on of the leading tacticians in American football...
...Honolulu, the U.S. Government will pay the bills of veterans who want to learn the hula. In California, the Animal Lovers Association will teach an ex-G.I. to train rodeo horses-by correspondence course. He can study "sleight of hand and prestidigitation" at the Chavez School of Magic, or master the art of makeup at the San Joaquin College of Cosmetology. Other schools will show the ex-G.I. (for tuitions curiously close to the legal maximum of $500) how to make candy, model for ads, decorate a cake...
...third week in November comes up, prestigitator Harlow's autumnal magic might put in a pre-Yale game appearance. But Rip Engle's agile backs and rugged line will demand more than sleight-of-hand taming. HARVARD BROWN Flynn (200) LER Boothby (200) Houston (200) LTR Rougvle (216) Drvaric (190) LGR lacuele (188) Glynn (195) C Regine (190) Feinberg (183) RGL Hodesh (196) Gorczynski (210) RTL Waiters (220) Felt (178) REL Flick (210) Kenary (183) QB Finn (170) Moffie (160) LHR Nelson (185) Gannon (180) RHL Kozak (168) Lazzaro (170) FB Green...