Word: wands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premiers had a heart-to-heart talk. After various conferences, Mr. MacDonald was seen with a wan smile, for his exertions on behalf of Edouard had caused him excessive fatigue. He declared that neither he nor the French Premier was a magician-"we cannot wave a wand and accomplish miracles." But he declared that they were both, substantially, in agreement...
...Carrillo's appearance alters the domestic complexion immediately. Obedient to his magic wand, publishers, clients, manufacturers and a heretofore secret daughter of the buried brother flood the family. Meanwhile, gypsy music off stage soothes the spectators into the requisite romantic mood. Finally Mr. Carrillo discards his gypsy habiliments and stands, a mere millionaire, suitable suitor for the daughter of any family...
...momentary levity as the Priest held the child high in his arms, saying: "I dedicate thee, Rosa, little flower of human life, to the cause of Russian women?Rosa, sweetest of flowers; Luxembourg, honored name of a martyr?beauty and sacrifice." As if in obedience to a magic wand the entire assembly rose, and with the passion of youth and the feeling of age the Internationale was sung?then...
...unplumbed centuries of time Egypt has been a whet to the imagination and a conjuring-wand for dreams. Since the era of Joseph and Moses the land, half-shrouded in its veil of mysteries, has tinged with its own strange color the thoughts and actions of men. Antony learned there the subtle, inexpressible charm of the East; Napoleon and his army stood in awe before its pyramids; Shelley drew a moral philosophy from a fallen "Ozymandias"; and the modern world stands at the newly-opened tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen and finds therein another Renaissance...
Romance, when called out by the magic wand of a fairy, or told in the pages of a "Huckleberry Finn", is a totally different thing from the romance of camping out on a winter night with little to wear and less to eat. Boys play pirates for the fun of it, and steal their provisions from their mother's pantry; but when a boy camps under the steps of Russell Annex, and steals what he needs from the automobiles and college rooms near by, it is stretching the point to say that he is "playing pirate...