Word: sleight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot. In her way Mrs. Lausche has managed to change her husband slightly, often without his knowledge. When he refused to yield his wrinkled, tired suits to her for cleaning and pressing, Jane slyly bought duplicate suits, now manages to keep the governor's wardrobe fresh by wifely sleight of hand. It was years before Frank Lausche discovered that he owned eight suits, not four...
There have been many good quarterbacks performing in Soldiers Field in the past few seasons. There were Brown's Pete Kohut, Columbia's Claude Benham and Dartmouth's Bill Beagle, but Cornell's star was the best. His sleight of hand fooled oven the most experienced observers in the press box, and his pitch outs and forward passes were extremely accurate. He scored all three Cornell touchdowns, and kicked two extra points, besides playing the entire game on defense...
...Demonstrating the spectacular sleight of hand that seems built-in in all Notre Dame quarterbacks, Paul Hornung led the Irish to a 19-0 victory over the stubborn Hoosiers of Indiana...
...show certain to wow children and win more than indulgent approval from their parents. Headed by Paul Tripp. who created the excellent Mr. I. Magination in 1949, It's Magic devotes a swift-paced half hour to the Black Arts. Gali Gali, a sleight-of-hand Egyptian, displayed a witty routine involving empty eggcups and a small barnyard of baby chicks; three attractively inept dancers with the help of a black backdrop and black-garbed assistants suavely defied gravity; Dominique, a French pickpocket, took a spectator's shirt from his back without his knowing...
Casting Shakespeare in modern dress, Orson Welles sleight-of-handed Caesar the role of a fascist. Hollywood's Joe Mankiewicz saw his Caesar as a kind of tired, pompous stockbroker. Shaw's hero in Caesar and Cleopatra is a worldly-wise but disenchanted superman whom power has made not mad, but sad. Front-rank Historical Novelist Duggan (The Little Emperors) throws dirt on these literary ghosts by spading straight for the facts and unearthing many a fascinating shard from ancient Roman political life...