Word: tricksters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spain there once lived a dissolute nobleman named Don Juan Tenorio who, a trickster of gracious ladies and trusting peasant girls, committed the supreme effrontery of inviting to sup with him the marble effigy of an elderly commandant he had killed. Eerily enough the effigy accepted, appeared stark white at the riotous banquet hall. Awfully he warned his murderer to repent. When the swaggering Juan refused he was lapped accordingly into undying flames...
...trickster, if any, was Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, who banished Trotsky a year ago for the crime of organizing a political opposition. Stalin brooks no opposition. Last week he muzzled correspondents in Moscow with a censorship so drastic that the only thing really known about Trotsky was that he had left Alma Alta...
...answer to my request to appear in your church before your parishioners ... is yes or no." Pulpiteer Straton answered: "Emphatically and unchangeably yes." But he meant "no," he would not debate in his church. And the incident was closed with a few parting, typically Stratonian epithets: "Bluffer . . . Tammany trickster . . . coward...
Thus, for example, one Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly expects soon to collect $1,000 per week in vaudeville. No singer, no dancer, no card-trickster, no chatterer, no club-swinger is Mr. Kelly. He is a sitter. Last week he came down from a seat fastened to the top of the flagpole on the roof of the St. Francis Hotel, Newark, N. J. There he had perched continuously for twelve days and twelve hours (TIME, June...
...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...