Word: magic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Overture to "The Magic Flute" Mozart...
...scholars in each graduating class is the hope and joy of the tutorial system as conducted at Harvard. The present incentive to attain Honors and Distinction is undoubtedly responsible for the increase in likely candidates for Phi Beta Kappa. Wheather it is the familiar watch chain symbol or the magic, "cum," "magna" or "summa," which attracts undergraduates to excel in such a secondary commodity as book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth...
...Black Magic used to be undone...
That the world may see streaks of light through the long hours of darkness, Orange, N. J., women hired themselves to the U. S. Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant...
Thomas Mann is less known in this country for Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...