Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart made his first visit to Italy, at 14, he heard a soprano called La Bastardella sing an "unbelievable" C in altissimo, an octave above the C in alt (high C) which is the difficult top of many a soprano's reach. Later in his Magic Flute, Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night-one of the most difficult coloratura soprano roles sung today-nothing higher than F in alt, or three and one-half tones below C in altissimo. Less than a century after Mozart's death, Jenny Lind produced effortless...
...well, Yale should be able to offer the attack it displayed against Cornell and Army along with the experience gained from Dartmouth, continued good punting from Colwell, Frank's passing and all around brilliance, some improved work in the fundamentals with the passing of time, and perhaps some new magic from Greasy Neale's bag of tricks with the fleeting of the same time...
...commoner and runs for president, Eddie to his horror is made a write-in opposition candidate, campaigns against himself to no effect: he sweeps the country except for the outlying provinces of Maino and Vermontash. The nine old councilors declare the election unconstitutional, and Eddie leaves town on a magic carpet, which he controls by a cantrip-"inflation" to go up, ''deflation" to come down. Eventually the carpet burns away from under him,* and he comes to earth with a thud, wakes to find himself in Hollywood, goggling at the passing stars...
...that he was hit on the head by falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...
This is by no means the first case on record on such petty larcency. Indeed, the group of policemen that appear as if by magic following the final whistle of the game, is much more interested in spotting gentlemen they have seen the week before either in the police line-up or in various questionable albums. The conditions that prevail in the mob that surges around the goal posts are practically ideal for accustomed law-breakers: a great mass of people crashing against each other all intent upon some noble objective and unmindful of skillful snatch artists examining the contents...