Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remote countries of the world-China, Russia-John Dewey is known and revered as the wizard of education (TIME, June 4). In the U. S. this prophet is not without honor save among the vast majority of citizens who never heard of him, so inconspicuously has he undermined all philosophy, all pedagogy. Dressed in sombre prose, his sensational thinking has not gained the easy popularity of Freud's shilling-shockers, or William James's eminently readable volumes...
...courage-seems to have left his high qualities in escrow with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always...
Tilden, against Lacoste, was the oldtime wizard. He was at the net killing the ball, at the baseline angling Lacoste out of position. He won, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Cochet was the toast of the boulevards last week. His work in the doubles and his quick disposal of Tilden in the singles, 9-7, 8-6, 6-4, showed conclusively that when he is at his peak no man can climb him. The tabulation: France...
Plans. While in Manhattan, Nominee Smith talked with potent Democrats from far and near. It appeared that the chief campaign wizard of the Brown Derby would be the nominee himself. A speaking tour of East Coast, West Coast, all around the land was in the mapping...
...develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand how the Standard Oil Co. was formed with a capital...