Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cruickshank. At Pinehurst, the jinx that has long dogged Bobby Cruickshank, professional golfer, eased up and let him win last week the united North and South open championship, in 293. Jock Hutchinson, 301, came second...
Today, Brown will have to break a jinx long-standing in college football, that of losing when dedicating a home stadium. Dartmouth is the best-known dedicator of other college's stadiums, but Yale has high hopes of dedicating Brown's horseshoe in a manner that will disapprove the Providence cohorts. Twenty-seven thousand people are expected to see the game
...years Rossini's Barber of Seville for the debut of Mme. Luella Melius, U. S. coloratura soprano. Many times has M. Rouche, Director of the Opera, attempted to revive this work; on each occasion, one of the principals has fallen ill. Savoyards have murmured: "The Barber is a jinx." So formidable is this superstition that, if the Barber is revived, M. Rotiche will insure Mme. Melius against sickness. In Vienna, Maria Jeritza declared that Tenor Piccaver, with whom she had been singing in Cavallcria Ritsticana, had sabotaged her success, stolen her thunder, seduced her applause, refused to throw...
...propositions. Picking Lafayette to win is logical but unsafe. It is an excellent game not to bet on. Tufts ought to down Bowdoin, but the Maine team has the habit of trampling on Tufts when it cannot beat anyone else. The Medford college will have to upset a persistent jinx in order...
Fumbles Have Proved Tiger's Jinx...