Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city grown up on the brown stone ashes of the old Borough." Apart from the dream introduction, there...
Toto, who weighs 118 pounds and can enclose himself in a two foot cube, is generally thought to be double-jointed. Disparaging this rumor, Toto said, "There is no such thing as being double-jointed. Every trick I perform is made possible through practice. Houdini was not a contortionist; he was a trickster. Each of his acts were done by subtility, and not by muscular coordination. Anyone can double himself into a small space if he will only practice...
Conclusions. Publicist Josef Bard asserts that Christians?1) subconsciously suspect that the New Testament is an emotional poison or at least a trick invented by the Jews and perpetrated upon Christians, whose competitive efficiency is reduced while that of the Jew is unimpaired; 2) realize the superior competitive efficiency of the Jew and seek to nullify it by violence, a game the Jew cannot play successfully...
...John Willard, who did The Cat and the Canary, has done this one badly in a trick yacht interior which rolls and pitches with uncanny naturalness. "How did this yacht party get cut adrift; and are these young lovers brother and sister; and who planted the bomb?" seems to be the plot. Sedative...
According to James Weldon Johnson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, enforced servitude of Negroes is not uncommon. Most common, said he, is the trick of keeping ignorant Negroes in perpetual debt...