Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Play Wizard Abbott has had uncommon success in the last few years pulling rabbits out of shabby theatrical hats and then turning them into ermine. Angel Island is the first produced playwriting attempt of Mrs. Howard Angus, wife of a Manhattan advertising executive. She is a frequent writer of magazine thrillers, but her chief avocation is etching, which she studied under Joseph Pennell. Mrs. Angus has called herself Bernie (short for Bernadine ) since she began to write for magazines. She believed editors were more receptive to male manuscripts. Satisfied with Angel Island, pleased that Hollywood...
...Sprigle's series, among other things, had told in detail how Justice Black had been given a gold card which made him a life member of the Klan and how he addressed a Birmingham Klorero on Sept. 2, 1926, sharing a rostrum with the Klan's Imperial Wizard, onetime Dentist Hiram Wesley Evans. Last week, Dr. Evans, enjoying a new appearance in the limelight, repeated that Klan rolls were secret but Justice Black was not currently a member...
According to Reporter Sprigle, Klansman Black's resignation was filed but never accepted and after winning the nomination, which meant the election, he reaffirmed his loyalty to Klan principals at an Alabama meeting attended by Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans, was rewarded by a gold Klan card making him a life member...
Said the Klan's Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans when reporters questioned him in Georgia: "I have not examined all the rolls of the Alabama Klan but I know Black is not now a member." Meanwhile the New York Times reported that Justice Black, vacationing in Paris, had dodged efforts of its correspondents to corner and question him. There was little wonder if Justice Black took refuge in the traditional prerogatives of the Nine Old Men of whom he now is one. Secure in a life job, he had little to worry about. If the past of the first...
...telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining companies, banks and banking houses, speculators, arbitragers. On Saturdays the meetings open at 10:30 a. m. but otherwise the chairman, currently Rothschild's bullion expert and mathematical wizard, Arthur Kimpton, announces crisply: "Gentlemen, it is eleven o'clock. We begin...