Word: magic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Argosies of magic sails...
...present generation has also a man who both possesses this magic power and has mastered the difficulties of transmitting it. Sir James Barrie in his "Peter Pan" has turned the trick, and the Vagabond takes this opportunity of announcing that it has recently appeared for the first time in book form (Charles Scribner's Sons; $1.251. After spending a little time in a perusal of this famous work freed from the vagaries of stock companies and the limitations of the mechanical stage the reader should find himself much more tolerant towards the six year old cousin who confidently sent...
...never can happen again, this game. More than that, nothing like it can ever happen again. The Yale games, four climatic endings of four undergraduate football seasons, are remembered after all the other games have faded into an indiscriminacy of thrill. And this Yale game will survive in a magic place of the mind where, forty-years on, every student may find again the old thoughts of that autumn at Harvard...
Ignace Jan Paderewski celebrated, last week, in London, his 68th birthday. The United Press reported: "He is still holding audiences spellbound with his magic touch on the ivory keys...
...phantom he could love, one who had never sinned against him and his countrymen. He was happy for a moment, would start at once for home but Helen had her qualms. She remembered. So did all Greeks and again she appealed to Aithra and again Aithra made magic, spirited them away to a lonely palm grove at the foot of Atlas...