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...have long had the Edison phonograph, the Maxim silencer, the Bell telephone. Now we are to have the Steinmetz truck. Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, " wizard of Schenectady," has been working for several years to perfect an electrical truck. The product of his efforts has been placed on the market, and full-page advertisements are appearing in the newspapers. They bear a statement over Dr. Steinmetz's signature that the trucks effect a saving of from 25 to 50 per cent over gasoline and horse-drawn vehicles, and a picture of the inventor-perfecto in mouth-covering a quarter...
...Bureau plans to reach the people through banks, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, labor organizations, and large mercantile institutions. By thus plugging thus plugging the hole in the dyke, the Bureau will divert millions of dollars yearly from the wildcat whirlpool and gradually drive the "Ponzi" specie of wizard from finance...
...cover alone makes the volume a necessary ornament to every study table, to say nothing of the possibilities of amusement, on evenings when there is nothing else to do but study, offered by the delightfully puzzling charts of neckties and hatbands. And there must be a budding financial wizard on the Board who gives us all this at two-thirds of the former cost to our recently depleted bank accounts...
...someone remarked that the world's three greatest men were Wilson, who had the right ideas and failed to apply them; Lenin, who had the wrong ideas and failed to apply them; and Lloyd George, who had no ideas and applied them vigorously. America's estimate of the Welsh Wizard has been generally higher than this opinion; but if there is truth in the paradox, it is easy to see which of the three has been most successful. Wilson has been repudiated; Lenin is an emblem of chaos; Lloyd George continues undisturbed at the head of a powerful empire...
There are, however, three numbers which come up to the best Keith traditions. One is Bob Pender's troupe of "animal impersonators, stilt walkers, and eccentric dancers". No one who has ever yearned to live once again in the weird and grotesque atmosphere of "Alice in Wonderland" or "The Wizard of Oz" should miss the big climax of this...