Word: hoodoo
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...Eyston drove a supercharged M. G. Midget car 96.93 m.p.h. for one mile, breaking the world's record held by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell. On crawling out of his Midget, Driver Eyston said he was disappointed because he had not gone 100 m.p.h., blamed a hoodoo...
Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...
...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...