Word: houdini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houdini. In imitation of the Gilbert Murray feats Harry Houdini,- American wizard, gave a private performance in his Manhattan home...
...stripped naked-closed the door in the presence of a witness who stood guard while down below three thought tests were writ- ten out and whispered around. The wizard descended. Walter Lippmann, editorial writer on the New York World, thought of "Lord Curzon in the Foreign Office last January." Houdini failed to receive the thought...
Bernard M. Baruch, financier, thought: "Don't give up the ship." Houdini, after a struggle, got "a sense of heaving water and a ship...
Another quick turn of the coat is the latest stunt in the political career of Raisuli, the Moroccan Houdini. So many shifts from the Spanish to the Mohammedan sides of this little war, and then back again, have left all but his followers certain that he is, after all, only on his own side...
...York World last week burst forth with pages unique to U. S, newspapers. These pages were called the Red Magic Section and were advertised prior to their appearance as pages personally edited by Harry Houdini, President of the Society of American Magicians. Red this magic section was-red with ink. Magic this section was not, save as parlor tricks and picture puzzles are magical. One was not taught how to exorcise satanic presences, to stir a cauldron fraught with "eye of newt and tov.gue of toad," to draw a charmed circle or utilize the mystical phases of the moon. "Magic...