Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks to the work of the Medical School's Frederick J. Pohle, Assistant in Medicine, and Francis H. L. Taylor, Research Associate in Medicine, a magic powder prepared from beef blood, has just been discovered, a powder that is more effective in stopping bleeding in hemophilia than any other known treatment...
Ignace Jan Paderewski (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC-Blue). Famed Polish pianist-patriot plays for the first time over U. S. radio, by short wave from Lausanne, Switzerland, for the Magic...
...masses by means of a book. This week he proposed to do that very thing, with How To Become a Good Dancer, result of three years of collaboration between him and his publishers.* Most notable novelty in Teacher Murray's book is its eight cut-outs-The Murray Magic Footprints. Put these on the floor according to diagrams in the book, walk on them while humming simple tunes, practice assiduously; such is the Murray magic...
...such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been satisfactory only the first six months, he insisted on references to cover that period. When the servant problem got bad enough, Ruth and Helen really came to believe in evil jinn...
Poetic license and a readiness to believe miracles did the rest. ("When you object, in the scientific twentieth century, to the magic of the fifth, it is no use expecting me to share your incredulity.") Readers are likely to prefer Gogarty's pilgrimage when he loses track...