Word: hoodoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand that he "stand aside" while other new House members take their oaths, then force his Democratic colleagues to defend him. If he is unseated he will not be vastly surprised. Of being tough Hamtramck's mayor he long ago said: "There's a hoodoo connected with this...
Stretching across the fairway at "Grumley's," famed 16th and hoodoo hole of the windy Southporty & Ainsdale course in Lancashire, is a 30-ft. sand bunker faced with black railroad ties. The barrier must be cleared on the second shot or the approach to the green is blind. At Grumley's bunker last week non-playing Captain Hagen's two daring selections came to the test. In the morning round, Nelson & Dudley, trailing at the 16th, rallied to clear the bunker for a birdie 4. They returned to Grumley's in the afternoon 3 up. Golfer...
...miles has always been a hoodoo for U. S. runners. Best time ever made outdoors by a U. S. runner at two miles was 9:10.6 made by Lash in the Drake Relays last April. That he was likely to break his own mark, let alone approach Nurmi's, was a possibility which appeared so remote to sportswriters last week that none of them bothered to mention it in their predictions. Lash had run in the East before, never matched his Midwest form...
...attempts to emerge. This Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent...
...finally landed here after a ten hour trip spread over a day and a half.--We hope they come back for us before we have to take to distilling sea water.--Dr. Allen and I have enjoyed ourselves muchly--this seems rather like breaking the hotel hoodoo--and I think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough to eat, especially with occasional wallaby gobs, or crayfish given us by Mr. Hosking, the cannery boss, not to mention mutton birds and fish; there is also a remarkably jeestly oyster...