Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys from Lewiston, and Coach Casey will probably concentrate on running plays this week. On the offense Bates tacklers often sifted through the Harvard line and nabbed the runners from behind, but the Bobcats could make little impression on the Crimson forward wall. Defensively, except against the old jinx--forward passes--the Harvard team looked unusually good for an opening game...
Sailor, Beware! (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Knox Robinson; Courtney Burr, producer). The thirteenth play of the new dramatic season has no jinx on it. It is as funny as it is bawdily outrageous, and so neatly executed that you will not recall many individual lines. The comic elements in Sailor, Beware! are simple enough: "Dynamite" Jones (Bruce Macfarlane) is the deadliest love pirate in the U. S. Navy. He has cardboard boxes full of garters, duly tagged, to prove it. In Panama, however, lives a young lady named Billie Jackson (Audrey Christie) whose hard heart has gained her the sobriquet...
...conscript the massed and hoarded money of the country and put it to work?" He killed himself with gas. Amid such circumstances the U. S. Government last week closed its 1933 ledger. It began a new fiscal year in which President Roosevelt was determined to break the Treasury jinx of a fantastically unbalanced budget even if he also broke hearts & homes. A balanced budget, he thought, will break fewer hearts than have been broken by the unbalanced budget of the last three years. Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House last March under a solemn campaign pledge to cut Government costs...
...plane, with a crew of two pilots, a radioman & mechanic, is equipped with a pneumatic lifeboat. Each man has a sort of light diving suit in which he can live for half an hour under water. Taboo as provisions are liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen fowl is a jinx...
...defeat at the hands of the Indians, the Crimson baseball team will seek to redeem itself in the second encounter with a strong, confident Dartmouth outfit tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, on Soldiers Field. Until the last two encounters, the team seemed to be followed by a jinx which left when they defeated finally a Graduate team which had previously defeated Yale. Then they defeated B. U., and, with a somewhat changed lineup, should play a closely-contested match...