Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to jinx anybody . . . but . . . the last publication which got oceans of free advance publicity was Ken." (Founded by Esquire in 1938, dead 16 months later...
...Eighth Street Theatre in Chicago was once a jinx theatre, but in the past seven years it has become a national institution. By last Saturday night, when as usual its 1,200 seats had been filled and emptied by two consecutive paying audiences, no fewer than 860,013 people had given 35 to 75? to get in and watch a freestyle, catch-as-catch-can radio show on a stage representing a hayloft. Station WLS's Barn Dance is a corny five-hour jamboree, radio's longest* and oldest in continuous operation, tops in Crossley ratings...
...jinx began to follow him six weeks ago on the night of the first lecture of the series. As was his wont he arrived at 8:30, a half hour late for the lecture. His sense of the fitness of things was shocked to find such a crowd assembled at the door of Emerson D that he couldn't get in. He heard only snatches of comment about "The Doll's House" and "Ghosts" and he vowed to break Vagian tradition and arrive on time the next week...
...Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...
...story of a jinx boy who gets paid to keep away from people and football. Charley Chase of movie fame makes the part a roisterous one, but his lines give him no support...