Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magic number of this year's Democratic national convention is 770-the two-thirds majority of delegates required to nominate for the Presidency. Last week political incantations began to fill the air, the primary elections began. It was the real start of the 1932 campaign and on the full-jawed face of New York's ambitious Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a set smile of wizardly confidence. He already had 22 of those 770 delegates...
...supersensitized public might the better sense the grace and agility of subsequent performance. Francies of real validity in childhood have been discontinued for the expediencies of adult life, but in some hidden corner of our mind may have reached an unearthly maturity of their own; and mythology, superstition, magic, from the childhood of culture, may still live with accumulated sophistication as an unrealized phantom in our modern civilization. If can scarcely be denied that here is a fascinating realm for exploration. The ultimate value of the Surrealiste painter does not depend upon what you may think of his subject matter...
...Horse at the Palace Theatre for 5?, with a free lunch thrown in. Roxy's theatre is showing four feature films and giving away a room and bath for a dime. Another equally disastrous theatrical season, it is prophesied, and the show business will be back to the magic lantern. But there are people who still have plenty of money. They are Policeman Meshbesher (Hugh O'Connell) and those other fortunates who have been able to buy a seat on the force. It is Mrs. Meshbesher (Mary Boland) who declares that she has so many diamonds...
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton...
...conditions they have become indispensable. In view of the highly technical nature of such schools they have done well to introduce into their curriculums a leaven of general culture; but the institution of an A.B. degree would be most unfortunate. For the modern conception of a diploma as the magic key to success has permeated every rank of society. Should such an attraction be introduced into an inexpensive school like the Massachusetts College there is grave danger that men who would otherwise have pursued a thoroughly useful technical course will be lured by the cultural will o' wisp to forsake...