Word: hoodooed
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...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...
From Newport to Washington last week hurried Evelyn Walsh McLean, wearer of the famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...
...year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included in the platform. Then things began to happen-which resulted in a series...