Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texas State Fair. One day of Fair was devoted to the Ku Klux Klan. From 75,000 to 200,000 (according to the persuasion of the estimator) assembled wearing little red "100% American" buttons. Dragons, Klabees and Cyclopses were present in robes of gold, purple, scarlet. And Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans made a keynote speech. Said...
Horse lovers of many nations thrilled at the news. Questions flew. Who will defend for America? Will Papyrus stand the voyage? Will Steve Donoghue, wizard English jockey, ride Papyrus? The date? The stakes? The winner...
...master wizard of all radioists, Guglielmo Marconi, is again on the job, and forecasts the early attainment of complete directional control of radio. He is working to perfect a system by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded...
...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...
Last week Edward Young Clarke, formerly Imperial Wizard and now Imperial Giant of the Ku Klux Klan, was removed from control of its Propagation Department. This week he was indicted by a grand jury at Houston, Texas, for violating the Mann Act. Six members of the jury were Klansmen. Clarke gave himself up to Federal authorities in Atlanta, and was released on $1,000 bail...