Word: wands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously conspired and caroused. When, at the last - his enemies forgiven, Ariel and Caliban set free - Prospero forswears magic, he seems indeed (as many men have thought...
...silver-haired Judge banned W. D. Cox, owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, from baseball for life because Cox bet on his own team. Two years before, Judge Landis blackballed Bing Crosby's bid for the Boston Braves because Bing owned a racing stable. In 1940, he waved his wand and made free agents of 92 players who had signed Detroit Tigers contracts (because Detroit used its farm clubs to "cover up" players). He always championed the little...
Barnaby Baxter is a five-year-old who has dreamed up a fairy godfather named Jackeen J. O'Malley. O'Malley's round figure is no taller than Barnaby's, is equipped with two small wings and a magic wand in the form of a fat cigar. O'Malley is a thoroughgoing Micawber-type fraud who never brings off his constantly promised miracles, but never alienates his small disciple's faith in him. O'Malley's companions are: 1) Atlas the Mental Giant, a bull-necked gnome who computes all problems...
...Silence." Principal mouthpiece for the new Auden is Shakespeare's Prospero, the magician in The Tempest, who in his old age throws his books of magic into the sea, breaks his wand, dismisses his wonder-working servant Ariel, abandons his magic island for the mild humdrum of everyday life. In Auden's version, Prospero's farewell to Ariel represents the mature intellectual's adieu to the glorious but unreal life of personal fantasy...
...Bishop Wand also has a robust sense of humor. One of his favorite stories is about himself. While Wand was Archbishop of Brisbane, he visited a young clergyman in the interior. The young man was unmarried, ate all his meals at a rather simple restaurant to which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said...