Word: hoodoo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hoodoo which has brought so many German cabinet crises in December* brought down the Cabinet of Chancellor Marx last week. In recent years nearly all German cabinets have been based on unstable "Little Coalitions," and so have been liable to fall at any moment; but there was no good reason why last week's crisis should not have been delayed till after Christmas. President von Hindenburg recognized this fact, instructing Dr. Wilhelm Marx who resigned as Chancellor last week to carry on ad interim. Thus by a comfortable and quite orthodox German stratagem the Herr President was able...
Bear Tries to Dispel Hoodoo...
...serious attempt is being made to find a universal language. At last Eskimos and Ethiopians will be able to converse congenially; perhaps, in the twenty-first century, the debates of the League of Nations Assembly will no longer be mutilated by interpreters; and in later years the University's hoodoo, the language requirement will cease to haunt the undergraduates...
...years. Passing over in bewilderment such queries as "Who drinks the porter in Macbeth?" "Who wrote the famous poker scene in which Pippa passes?" and "When did A. H. Woods produce "Getting Goethe's Garter'?" the student will pause at number thirteen. For once the ancient hoodoo reems to be broken; here is a question for which he can hope to find an answer. It reads: "How was 'Paradise Lost'? Who lost it? Who found it?" Professor Lowes, in his lecture on Milton this afternoon, may not reply to that particular question; but he will give information that will...