Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kleagles and Grand Goblins climbed out of stuffy trains, put on their night-shirtish regalia, paraded peacefully without masks. At their head was Hiram W. Evans, Imperial Wizard, dentist of Dallas, Tex. Shrewd businessman, he smiled, wondered if all those behind him had paid their dues. There were floats: "Miss 100% America" and "Little Red School-house." During the next two days, the mighty Kloncilium met to ponder on next year's schemes, probably to re-elect Imperial Wizard Evans for another four-year term. The Klan program now has four aims...
Frenchmen spent the week in panicky expectation of whatever Finance Minister ("Wizard") Caillaux was about to produce from beneath the cloak of secrecy cast over even the least important of his doings...
...hands that it engaged Mr. Logan to continue the good work, to write its advertising. The General Electric Co., the Anaconda Copper Co., the International Mercantile Marine, the Radio Corp. of America, and many another vast concern speedily sought Mr. Logan's services. He became known as a wizard at "institutional" advertising. The effects of his work are felt quite as intimately by the individual consumer-in a comfortable, punctual train; a well appointed ship; a sound security. But the distinction between the Messrs. Lasker and Logan, in what they do and how they do it, is as marked...
...bicycle race, C. A. Reed of Columbia, a former wizard on the wheel, will burn the cinders once more from a precarious height. Reed captured the bicycle title in 1881 and in 1883 and came back for second place...
...content. Luther Burbank, plant wizard, received Death at 77 without any last minute decision to poultice his scientific philosophy, of life with hope for an after life. They conducted his funeral as he had wished, quietly, privately, with no religious rites - and quoted over him his own words about reaching life's end: "If it has been a good life it has been sufficient. There is no need for another. Once here and gone the human life has served its purpose...