Word: hoodoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live apart in sections with such names as "Lick Skillet," "Spot Without a Wrinkle" and "Balance Jew" (where lots were bought on deferred payments and it took a long time to pay the balance due). Cohn has spent time with Negroes, learned how they feel, collected their stories of "hoodoo" and "conjure" episodes, and listened to them closely. An example...
...Angeles' Burbank Theater was known to the trade as a "hoodoo house" when a lean, sandy-haired, 23-year-old manager named Oliver Mitchell took it over in 1899. Weaned in the theater as a "top stander" in a family acrobatic act called The Three Moroscos, Oliver assumed the name Morosco. He struck out for himself at the age of twelve, became assistant manager of a theater at 16. At 35, in the Burbank, he produced a musical hit, The Bird of Paradise...
...Operating in the same area, the cruiser Devonshire, "hoodoo ship" of the British Navy, surprised a raider as it was putting fuel into small boats probably for submarines. Placing a fatal shot in the raider's magazine, and fearing the presence of a U-boat, it sped away without picking up survivors...
...Louis on the cover before his fight with Nova. I heard someone talking on the radio, with tears in his voice, about the terrible hoodoo that had descended on this fine, clean fighter. And what happens ? As if nothing in the world was bothering him, Joe steps out and knocks Nova twitching...
...about the cover. He isn't much of a hand for reading, especially such high-toned rags as yours. But he must have seen it on the newsstands. Anyway Cavalcade, being a horse, couldn't have paid much attention to his cover picture and he got hoodoo'd anyway. How do you explain...