Houdini

How To Use Houdini In A Sentence

• an escapology act of which the great Houdini would have been proud
• The man told Houdini the pages were 116 and 117 and that the first words on those pages were “crowfoot” and “ice.” The Secret Life of Houdini
• In fact, Houdini relied on great skill, low cunning, and keeping tiny metal picklocks concealed about his person.
• As a tribute to his parents, Houdini commissioned his friend Oscar Teale to design an extravagant exedra that used many tons of Vermont granite. The Secret Life of Houdini
• Tied up with ropes, magician Harry Houdini is lowered into a glass tank filled with water.
• In his second term, of course, Houdini submersed himself in a padlocked iron cage a mile deep in boiling water and left his fate to a gaggle of witches, a silly young intern, and Inspector Javerts.
• Houdini's diaries took up an entire shelf - about a dozen volumes, each boxed in an expensive leather slipcase, gold tooled - a treasure surely worth a few hundred thousand dollars.
• But Will Keep Its Secrets To mark the 84th anniversary of Harry Houdini's death, one of the magician's most famous props will materialize from a New York City magic shop as a key part of a new exhibit. Houdini Trunk Reappears,
• The effort necessary to shoot a bolt from within a lock is drawn from Houdini the medium, but it must not be thought that this is the only means by which he can escape from his prison.
• Sir Arthur actually expresses the opinion that Houdini would be ‘helped’ by being shown genuine spiritualistic phenomena, as if that were the greatest goal imaginable.