Word: wands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is contrasted," he continued, "to the expressed Republican attitude which seems to be that you can solve these problems by some magic wand process...
...Devil's Advocate, bestselling Novelist Caldwell (This Side of Innocence, Dynasty of Death) has laid aside her wand of romance and taken up the cudgel of politics from what can only be described as a new position, the Neanderthal Right. The only other remarkable thing about Devil's Advocate is that, in its first five weeks, it sold nearly 35,000 copies and according to Retail Bookseller, was the bestselling novel in the U.S. for a week...
...year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund, urbane fairy godfather named J. J. O'Malley. O'Malley's cigar doubled as a magic wand and usually kept him and Barnaby at odds with the slow-witted real world around them...
...above the crime, is not primarily concerned with" settling "a bill in accordance with some tariff." But unlike the psychologist, he does not regard guilt as "an illusion, a form of groundless self-torment." He regards it rather as indispensable, for "in the life of the soul no magic wand is waved, no slate is simply sponged." The Christian's final responsibility is not to abolish the delinquent's guilt-the one means of redemption- but to share it. "He will regard his own possible part in the other's rehabilitation as strictly subordinate, since ultimately...
...arrives at the House, frockcoated and gaitered, to deliver some official piece of news, the oak door is slammed in his face, and the cry "Black Rod! Black Rod!" goes bawling down the lobbies. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod thereupon knocks thrice upon the door with his wand of office, and is then admitted, bowing to the Speaker and members on both sides as he approaches the Bar. M.P.s dearly love to show off the worn spots on the door where Black Rod has rapped, as proof of Parliament's treasured independence from the Crown...