Word: hocuspocus
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...staff consultations with the Allies, to promise to call for aid the minute either The Netherlands or Belgium was invaded. By then he was growing suspicious of De Man, King Leopold's closest adviser. De Man let him down, he says, by insisting on a great deal of hocuspocus, including a letter from Daladier to Leopold, which Romains tried to get. But Daladier let him down...
...which he plans to exhibit in Manhattan this winter. Last summer Dr. Di Ghilini beheld and coveted, in West Hollywood's Old Colony Antique Shop, a throne which appeared to him to be of hammered silver and gold, of the 16th Century or earlier. Summoning his powers of hocuspocus, Dr. Di Ghilini made small purchases, casually asked Joseph Osiel, tall, excitable part owner of the shop, about the throne. It would cost $2,000, said Mr. Osiel. For two weeks Magician Di Ghilini made more purchases, let Mr. Osiel bring his wares to his house. Finally Mr. Osiel brought...
Last week Japanese reverently celebrated the 2,600th anniversary of the assumption of divine rule by Hirohito's ancestor Jimmu, first of Japan's unbroken (but, thanks to some perfectly divine concubines, occasionally knotted) string of 124 emperors. To Occidentals, the celebration looked like so much hocuspocus. This scoffing attitude was symptomatic of the blind misunderstanding of Japan's ways which last week threatened-in the opinion of some sober commentators, more immediately than Europe's troubles-to get the U. S. into...
This maudlin hocuspocus, together with far too much stunting and propagandizing, slows down the tempo of the show to a very ordinary invalid's walk. If the fabulous invalid survives, it will be thanks more to its own constitution than to the ministrations of Broadway's highest-paid, by-appointment-only play doctors...
...through Manhattan business offices last week were pleasant, well-groomed young women representing James McCreery & Co., big old TIME, fame 21, 1937 Manhattan department store. Among other young women on moderate salaries the McCreery solicitors were seeking applications for "membership" in McCreery's "Junior Club." Stripped of merchandising hocuspocus, McCreery's "Junior Club" was merely a drive for new charge accounts. The application blanks requested the usual vital statistics, the applicant's name was turned over to a credit agency for the usual check...