Word: magician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King took the waters, he was asked his every wish. Music? He liked Carmen and Aïda. The local symphony changed its program and saved a row of seats. But on the appointed night, the King decided to stay home instead, so fascinated was he by the Japanese magician who had been brought in to amuse his youngest sons while he was at the concert...
Coming so soon after the Picasso job, your article on Mondrian flashlights the difference between profoundly creative art and the foxy razzle-dazzle of the greatest magician since the death of vaudeville...
...papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from Harry Houdini: "I am not a magician, but a mystifier." General Electric Co.'s Wizard Charles Steinmetz described...
...midst of a huge brawl between Gorky's uncles, the camera comes suddenly to rest on the spout of the tea service, which is soon discovered by Uncle Yakov who turns the service slightly so that the boiling water pours gently over Uncle Mikhail's hand. Donskoy is a magician at using montage; to accentuate the motion of his picture, he stops...
...walk so that shoes will not wear out, with a tale of how each month his landlord pays him rent, with a mere shrug or grunt or monosyllable, he can be a delight. But oftener he struggles, like a boxer, to outpoint his material, or like a magician, to make it vanish; and oftenest, he is mowed down by it. The evening is as unhappy a mixture as an omelet would be made with one new-laid and one quite elderly...