Word: tricksters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rahman Bey, fakir, recently submerged himself for an hour, asserted that he owed his life to his ability to fall into a cataleptic trance. It was magic; until the trance was at an end he did not breathe. To Fakir Bey, Harry Houdini, trickster, gave the lie, donned blue trunks, a white shirt, a luminous wrist watch, entered an airtight tin coffin equipped with a telephone and electric pushbutton, was lowered to the depth of the Shelton Hotel Pool, Manhattan...
...Stafford '26, whose sleight of hand tricks have been a great success at concerts this season, has caused the clubs to be on the lookout for a man with a specialty vaudeville act which will add to the variety of their performances. A good sleight of hand trickster or an expert juggler is especially what the clubs are looking...
...Among us politicians the quack and the trickster still flourish and the printed word is their most powerful weapon. Would that you (the publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...