Word: vanishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breley. "Sim Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making one of his chorus (let's call it a chorus) girls vanish into thin...
...enough to promise that he will try to save us, rather than one who cavalierly pretends that we are already saved." And it saw against him such powerful forces working to establish a one-party system that, if they succeed, "the possibility of creating a formidable opposition party will vanish for a long time to come." For the makings of an American fascism by way of a one-party Government, The Christian Century listed: 1) the vast political machines; 2) the Solid South; 3) "the economic blocs grateful for his [the President's] special legislation"; 4) peacetime conscription...
...does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying...
...Help us to be men enough not to stand for one minute these dictatorships who would overthrow all we believe in. Don't let liberty perish from the earth. Don't, Don't, DON'T allow freedom of conscience to vanish from the earth...
Ladies and non-Harvard men, as well as alumni, are invited to a meeting Friday night in the Metropolitan Opera House, where they will have the opportunity of listening to a symposium on the subject "Did Opportunity Vanish with the Frontier?" Slated to speak are Thomas W. Lamont '92, Dean Donham '98, Harlow Shapley, honorary '33, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, President Conant '14, Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, and Francis T. Spaulding '17, professor of Education...