Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowy-white angels float down from the sky; an old witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
...Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point of unintelligibility, is fairly satisfactory as the ill-starred princess. The vaudeville team of Jans & Whalen capers through some very thin comedy material, representing the inevitable U. S. Marines. Most hummable waltz: "Magic Spell of Love...
...round of 72 is an average of four strokes per hole. The figure 4 is a magic one in golf, but never so magic for Jones as this year at Merion where for him it is the big number on the title he wants to win. Could he press a button on himself that would put him "down-in-four" at each & every hole, Champion Jones's 1930 record might well be made quadrilateral by acclaim. Straining in mind even more than body, tightlipped, his good-humored smile and easy Georgia drawl in check for the tremendous occasion, Jones...
Last week the fulfillment of these changes came when General Electric advertised that it had three models ready. Many pages of advertising, vast broadcasting programs, announced the new product of, as General Electric termed itself, "The House of Magic." The advertising hinted of a policy which is known to be fundamental with the "House of Magic." It puts its name upon no magic until it is sure the magic is good magic...
...Magic Carpet. The Ryan monoplane Magic Carpet, flying through wind and rain over Chicago, disappeared into a thundercloud, tumbled out of it in a crazy spin, crashed through the top of a steel gas tank, plunged into 40 ft. of water at the bottom, killed Pilot Orville Suchy and two joyride girl passengers. European Derby. Pilot Fritz Morzik of Germany, who last year won the International Around-Europe Reliability Tour for light planes, was last week declared winner of this year's 4,750-mi. derby...