Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounds Dunninger so much as this sort of skepticism. Because of it, his relations with his brother magicians are not good. "Ethics are tossed aside these days," he muses sadly. He feels that it is especially unethical of his rivals to charge that his mind-reading act is a trick. Occasionally he offers to bet $10,000 that no one can duplicate his "brainbusters." One of his detractors, Richard Himber, bandleader and amateur magician, has countered with an offer to bet $100,000 that Dunninger can't read his mind. Dunninger's reply: "I wonder, would he prove...
System. In Joliet, Ill., Otis Wendling, a prize safe driver for ten years, revealed that good driving is easy: the trick is to "drive defensively, as if other drivers are dangerous maniacs...
...year-old Editor John Whiting had enrolled an impressive 531,000 readers in his correspondence course. But right from the start, Science Illustrated had been deep in the red. McGraw-Hill, which aims most of its soberly successful, specialized magazines at comparatively small markets, found it a tougher trick to sell Science Illustrated to mass-market advertisers. All told, staffers estimated that McGraw-Hill had dropped several million dollars on the experiment in science...
...miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this...
...seven raucous weeks of defending black-haired, 27-year-old Judith Coplon against charges of espionage in a Washington court, loudmouthed little Attorney Archie Palmer had tried almost every lawyer's trick in the book. He almost cracked his vocal cords with protest when the Government introduced some of the contents of his client's purse-FBI "data slips" which the prosecution charged she had taken from her desk in the Justice Department to give to a Russian agent...