Word: magician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in love with an innocent-seeming girl (Barbara Bel Geddes), but had begun to doubt her: it looked as if she might be secretly carrying on with an aging and odious magician (Vincent Price). The rest of their story bears some relation to Othello: a profoundly depraved man tortures a profoundly simple one with lies, half-lies and ugly possibilities about the young girl until the anguished hero, his trust destroyed, kills his tormentor...
...special treat for neighborhood children who still thrill at the sight of a red cap and a white beard at Christmas times, PBH superintendent "Jock" Cockburn donned the gay apparel for 19 youngsters, who watched a magician while lapping up holiday refreshments...
...before accepting a Government job in peacetime. Even if they can make ends meet by digging into their own pockets, they are likely to think again before going to Washington. The reason was well supplied last week by Michigan's flap-jawed Republican Representative Paul Shafer, an amateur magician and a professional scold...
While the children are filling their stomachs, the PBH entertainment committee has planned for a student magician to pull rabbits from a hat and generally keep the youngsters bewildered...
...described by Kendall, it sounded wonderful. It would have a neat aluminum body, would do 60 miles an hour and would retail for only ?100, one-third under Ford or Morris. Best of all, Magician Kendall promised production of 500 a week by 1947. Those who scoffed were told to look at what he had already done...