Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Except President Roosevelt, no man could predict the magic date of adjournment with more authority than Senate Majority Leader Joseph Taylor Robinson. Last week Senator Robinson clopped out of the President's office, observed: "We want to speed adjournment all we can. Of course, there are several bills still in conference between the Senate and the House for final adjustment, and there are some others that the President would like to see action upon. . . . Under the circumstances I feel we will be fortunate to get through by Aug. 20." Lending weight to the Majority Leader's cautious hint...
Cleveland. A pair of simple psychotics made the week's final murder headlines in the Midwest. According to Mr. and Mrs. Waldman of Cleveland, just because Mr. Waldman had once known Mrs. Ida Rose Cooper, she sent magic fireballs into their windows at night. Mr. Waldman had been burnt. The Waldmans slept with a pair of pliers in the bed to catch the floating fireballs, a hammer and anvil to smash them with, and "even in this hot weather we had to keep the windows closed to keep the fireballs out." When Mrs. Matilda Waldman shot and killed...
...cause & effect. They do not know why people get sick and die, why crops fail, why there are droughts or rains, why arrows miss their mark or why hunters are mangled by beasts. Therefore they ascribe every mishap to the action of sorcerers, or of enemies practicing everyday magic, or of invisible influences about whose nature they speculate little but which they feel around them everywhere and which they try to circumvent by any means available. Thus the "supernatural" is simply that which they cannot see or fathom, and it interferes with and confuses the natural order of things constantly...
...enter an enemy camp and cut loose a picketed horse, the exploit counting for more than the material gain. The Crow went regularly on the warpath, yet considered fighting as such disgraceful. Although killing enemies was meritorious, the Crow who first touched a helpless adversary with a magic stick received more credit within the tribe than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness and magnificent courage blended in Crow war psychology, fleetness counted for more than skill or valor, and war was less armed conflict as white men know it than an incredibly dangerous...
...About 1909, George Melies, a magician of the Theatre Robert Houdin in Paris, gave the motion picture new life by applying the camera to feats of magic using fade-outs, dissolves and double exposures...