Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young financial genius (as indicated, Douglas in plain clothes) and being impressed by large transactions in stock sales made through a selection of innumerable telephones which surround the man, we watch Miss Daniels drawl her way into the sactum sanctorum in order to win a bet. The young wizard is properly upset and so is the financial world. The woman plays with the inexperienced man. The man ends up by following her on board a curious trans-Atlantic liner. A travelling library on the subject of amours, Douglas' valet, mixes a potion that upsets everything. An orchestra plays; the passengers...
...follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization." "There is nothing so powerful as truth -and often nothing so strange." The Author. Claude Moore Fuess. 45, is instructor in English at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He has also written: The Life of Caleb cushing, Rufus Choate: The Wizard...
...amateur starter is about as welcome as a stray Hip Sing in Mott Street. . . . Discovery that K. K. K. stood for 'Ku Klux Kon' has reduced the membership in the Klan from 9,000,000 five years ago to 35,000 now. Tough on the Imperial Wizard and the percentage-boy organizers, but I guess nobody else is weeping ? if we count out the pillow case industry. ... In New Jersey I see the Prohibition administrator is interviewing reporters through a peephole. Sorry, boys. Can't be too careful these days...
Montana. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, opportunistically appeared as a campaigner against Senator Thomas James Walsh, Dry Roman Catholic, Democratic nominee for reelection. Wizard Evans was inferentially supporting Wet Catholic Albert John Galen, Republican Senatorial nominee. His explanation: Senator Walsh is much abler and more experienced than Nominee Galen, more capable politically...
...genius of Edison, already legendary, here shines forth in all its glory. It has amazing extent. Not only does the Wizard figure out what needs inventing and then invent it, but he trains a sales force, markets his product. At heart a chemist, he is entirely at home in physics, astronomy, architecture, politics. Many business practices owe their origin to him. His phenomenal memory recalls with equal ease the make of his first printing press, the dimensions of his early laboratory, scientific facts pertaining to his many inventions, and every superior funny story anyone has told...