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...collection of doodads on the desk of Doodaddict Franklin D. Roosevelt was added a thingamajig that would have gladdened the heart of any patriotic hex. It was a figure of Adolf Hitler, leaning over like a fraternity pledge awaiting a paddle. On its rump, a pincushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Uniformity | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...started a few days ago when a group of ardent Hitler haters decided to out-hex "Life's" pin stickers, and put a fiery end to Adolf. The originators of the plan picked Joseph P. Lyford '41 as head swami, but, thinking to give him a pleasant surprise, they neglected to tell him of his election until a few minutes before the announced time for the hexing. Then Lyford balked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifth Columnists Almost Disrupt Hex Burning of Hitler in Effigy | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

Germany's Hitler (last year's MAN) : Here is a boy who is long overdue. Cannot TIME bring him out again, and finish the job? It might atone for some of the innocents you have put the hex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Hex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

They are scrupulously clean about their sidewalks and gardens, but careless about their person. They are ardent churchgoers, but "hex" conscious and superstitious. They are hard people to do business with, but faithful when once won and kept coddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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