Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Came "Wizard Caillaux," as the Painlevé Government steppd up to power, and attempted to work many miracles which have failed. His internal 4% gold loan which was to have absorbed the great weight of defense bonds and brought relief to the Treasury has not achieved adequate flotation. The Moroccan War and M. Caillaux's uncertain U. S. debt settlement have further contributed to send the franc tumbling down to 22 to the dollar, and have caused Caillaux himself to admit that the Bank of France can see its way clear to facing its present obligations without inflation...
Frenchmen wondered if he was such a bad wizard after...
...llaux spoke to reporters. Some one told him of having paused before a window in Washington where pictures of the French Debt mission were displayed and of having heard a woman say: "Oh, how sly they look!" "Ah yes!" exclaimed M. Caillaux, with a weary irony. "The Wizard! It is always the same. All people believe that foreigners would eat them if they could...
...wittiest man in the House of Commons" (TIME, April 7, 1924). His interjections have become bywords: "Lloyd George may be the wizard of Wales, but he's the blizzard of Britain;" "The man who'll come out on strike for fun will go to hell for pleasure...
...time has come," the wizard said, "when the State should resume legal authority over the land...