Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forrest's name became a byword in the West. When with 500 men he captured 1,700 Federals, ecstatic Southerners dubbed him the Wizard of the Saddle. Sherman vowed he would get him "if it costs 10,000 lives and breaks the Treasury. There will never be peace in Tennessee until Forrest is dead!" But when his was the last organized Confederate force in the West, when news came of Lee's and Johnston's surrenders, Forrest knew the game was up. His men crowded round him, begged him to lead them to Mexico to avoid surrendering. He was tempted...
...muscular lady who used to do more than 200 one-handed giant turns on a rope high up under the Big Top. She fell and was killed when a trapeze ring broke with her in Copenhagen last February (TIME, Feb. 23). Last week her husband, Trapezist Alfredo Codona, "The Wizard of Flight," brought back her ashes in a golden urn. Airplanes dropped wreaths on his ship as it came up New York Harbor. There are still 800 other performers in the Circus, however-whip-crackers who knock the caps off bottles 50 ft. away; whooping cowboys; clowns who operate explosive...
...these, only Brandy Snap was saved from the pyre of many champions last week. Others destroyed included Backside Bard, a wire-haired stud, Hafren Wizard, the last Welsh terrier bred by Homer Gage Jr., and Holmbury Reverie of Welwire, a wire-haired that had won "Best-in-Show" 14 times...
Died. Nathan Bedford Forrest, 58. retired Imperial Kligraph (national secretary) of the Ku Klux Klan, onetime Grand Dragon of the Georgia Klan, grandson of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest who was the first Grand Wizard of the original Klan when it was founded in 1867; of paralysis; in White Springs...
...annual bickering over the opening date of spring is providing the Mathematics Department with a subject worthy of its wizard calculations. Most Harvard men have been so bewildered by the fertility of March in breeding April Hours that they have little spirit left for questions of chronology. It is so much simpler to concede Mr. Einstein a point and admit that the whole thing is purely relative...