Word: sleight
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...postponing his distribution of foreign and home service plums, Mr. Roosevelt is playing very shrewd politics. Probably there is no other sleight so successful in ensuring the support of a covetous representative body. The kindly eye of the administration is, at present, very valuable, and has been very skillfully and assiduously attracted by Congressional aspirants to office. But the difficult problems arise when one of the party sirens, such as Mr. Curley, grows suspicious and restive, and loudly demands prompt action. To grant Mayor Curley his appointment would antagonize and embitter an important political group; to refuse it would invite...
...Spider (Fox). A man sitting in the audience of a vaudeville theatre is murdered. The performers in the theatre, a pair of magicians, are suspected of the crime and members of the audience are implicated. One of the magicians uses black magic and sleight-of-hand to find the real culprit. When The Spider was produced on the Manhattan stage four years ago, a fair proportion of the characters in it were seated in the pit of the theatre in which it was produced; this method of staging mystery plays became so popular that for a few months the lobbies...
...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...
...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...