Word: wands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Manhattan last week to talk about business under the Republican Administration. Having racked up a record year in output, it was small wonder the manufacturers thought that doing business under the G.O.P. was just fine. But they were soon reminded that the new Administration can wave no magic wand to wipe out taxes and Government deficits...
...from power in a feud with Evita Perón about the time the terms of trade finally turned against Argentina, Miranda retired to self-imposed exile in Uruguay. But Perón himself never forgot the old trader he had once hailed as "a man with a magic wand that turns everything to gold." Last December, several months after Evita's death, Miranda flew to Buenos Aires for a conference with the chief. Recently, as Miranda continued to shuttle back & forth between Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Argentines heard that he was about to be recalled to boss...
...outraged sniffs that are as much a Poppins characteristic as her long, turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed umbrella which is the closest she gets to a magic wand. Children who threaten to disobey Mary Poppins (it is never more than a threat) are reduced by one glance from her ice-blue eyes. In her latest adventure-fantasy, the creator of Mary Poppins, Australian-born Mrs. Pamela L. Travers, offers a cautionary bit of advice: "I warn you, children, take care...
...military funeral inspires a grand spectacle and letters still bear the phrase "Death to the Fascist, Free the People." On top of this, Tito played heavily on national solidarity and self-interest to save his own neck when the 1948 split with Russia seemed imminent. Under his wand, the greatly diverse Yugoslav people have submerged their peculiar cultural and racial differences into a proud nationalist feeling. Yet they still keep their language and practice old customs in the antonomous provinces. With the possible exception of Trieste, Tito directs his brand of nationalism to domestic construction and economic rehabilitation...
...making the regiment a symbol of the church militant in which he believes. Apart from Guy, none of the newer officers is a devout man, and most of them are intellectual mediocrities at best. But to Waugh -and to the reader, after Waugh has waved his magic wand of characterization -mediocrity seems not only a human condition but a fascinating one. The only trouble with it is that it is incapable of leading a Crusade-a job which Waugh turns over to one of his most scintillating creations, Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook...