Word: magic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill of Cincinnati waved his magic wand of efficiency and all city firemen found themselves invested with police powers. On a general police alarm they will issue from their firehouses and place their apparatus across 65 important street intersections, thus blocking all traffic and the escape of criminals...
...English as the practical successor to Esperanto may appear a visionary prospect until one considers the influence of the talkies in the far and near sections of the world. The younger set in the Fiji Islands, for example, are certain to become vitally interested in English upon beholding the magic of the silver screen and listening to the soft charm of the Hollywood talkies' silver tongue. The world flooded with English language talkies certainly presents a beautiful prospect for the Anglomaniac...
Thus by a gesture intended principally for local effect, Chief Rebel Valenzuela sought to identify himself with the magic name of his old heroic friend, General Alvaro Obregon, who was assassinated last year shortly after his re-election as President of Mexico (TIME, July 30). Last week indeed the murdered President's widow, Senora Maria Tapita Obregori, was understood to have added a letter of fervent supplication to the documents despatched by Señor Valenzuela to Washington...
...power of Prohibition officials to arrest without a warrant prior to the Jones Bill, it is now clear that not only may officers arrest without a warrant one who violates the Prohibition Law but also a private person is privileged to effect such an arrest. Such is the magic of the term "felony". This situation offers excellent opportunities to fanatical "drys" to further the cause...
...coming of a few warm days to make its inhabitants begin to count the weeks to June, the Vagabond began to yield to the call of the travel-book. For a wandering spirit like his, the confines of Cambridge are at times too narrow and when with a magic carpet made of a few postage stamps he can secure free passage to any part of the globe there are few better preventives for spring fever...