Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Magic Name. In his opening words warmhearted Henry Wallace spoke of the honor of running with "the one man who, more than any other, represents security for democracy in the modern world." There were roars for his sentiments...
Agriculture. Soil-conservation payments, commodity-surplus loans, encouragement of farm purchase by tenants, the food-stamp program, "some such" formula as the two-price system in the twice-vetoed McNary-Haugen Bill. "The platform offers no magic formula. The problem is far too complex. ... It does constitute a promise that the Republican Party genuinely seeks solutions...
...adventure in which Seabrook, using black magic and a nail-studded doll, al most killed a French wizard who had cast a deadly spell over Mrs. Seabrook...
Willie Seabrook is the Richard Halliburton of the occult. The Magic Island credulously expounded Haitian voodoo, introduced "zombi" into U. S. speech. Adventures in Arabia found Seabrook among the whirling dervishes, learning to become a trance mystic. Jungle Ways presented him studying magic on the Ivory Coast, photographing phallic monuments, eating human flesh ("like good, fully developed veal"). Asylum was a frank account of another weird region: a New York insane asylum where he was cured of dipsomania...
Seabrook's theory: witchcraft (black magic) is potent, can kill by autosuggestion, just as psychotherapy (white magic) can rid folk of fancy-induced but very real ills. Corollaries: 1) the witch's victim must fear, perhaps unconsciously, the power of magic; 2) witchcraft can affect only human beings...