Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder, kills the baby with his own mumbo-jumbo. These events are developed in a sharp atmosphere of authenticity, tautly directed by Arthur Beckhard, expert handler of family groups (Another Language). Good performances: William F. Schoeller as Hofnagel, Jules Epailly as a rival wizard, Victor Kilian as a slow-witted yokel...
Wamegonian. Sixty years ago Henry Chrysler used to drive a wood-burning locomotive across the plains of Kansas. Fifty-eight years ago a son was born to him in the town of Wamego, Kans. Walter Chrysler from boyhood was a wizard with machinery. At 1 7 he quit school to become an engine wiper at 5 ?an hour. He took a course in mechanical engineering from International Correspondence Schools. At 33 he had already driven through all the branches of railroad mechanics to the position of superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Chicago & Great Western. From that...
...shortened my neck. Men said that in moments of excitement the Admiral's love-pats had crippled many a woman; but they still flocked after him." At the missions along the road Juan heard many a tale of famed Father Ugarte, "whose habit it was to seize a wizard in each hand by their long hair, and knock their heads together until they begged humbly for baptism; declaring themselves long Christian by conviction, but kept from the Church by humility. Once baptized, he retained them so near him that they could not safely backslide...
...Colorful Figure's eye one dark night in the washroom of a Long Island beach club, all in the true spirit of fascistic democracy. Although this fistic filibusterer, the Kingfish, in a spirit of pure research, has located him on a preferred list of J.P. Morgan, the financial wizard recently tried for financial witchcraft. Now in the egalitarian thinking of Mr. Long, to be on a Morgan list is to be Morgan-owned, and Mr. Morgan owns Collier's weekly. This was discovered by Huey when he was covering the Morgan investigation for his quaint magazine "The American Progress...
...Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends when one of the husbands pays him an indignant call. Presently Chandra is being led off for two years in the penitentiary, for killing his visitor in self-defense...