Word: jinx
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Then, in 1930, the apotheosis of the Coward comedies, Private Lives, appeared. All the old tricks were brought to shining perfection in a play which related the high-jinx of a divorced couple who found themselves on respective second honeymoons with decidedly the wrong people. The divorced couple were impersonated by Mr. Coward and the little girl from Miss Conti's, Gertrude Lawrence of the comely back. The playwright still stuck to stichomythy, a tendency reflected in last week's production. Some of his dialog was as bitter and bright as Alice in Wonderland...
Members of New York's Tammany Hall may or may not be a burden to the city; they seem a positive jinx to the Italian Line. With pinchbeck little James John Walker aboard, the brand-new 51,000-ton, 28-knot Rex broke down at Gibraltar, reached Manhattan three days late. The slightly smaller, equally fast and ornate Conte di Savoia left Naples on her maiden voyage fortnight ago with New York's Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney as passenger...
Dartmouth has played Yale off & on for 48 years without winning once, but this year there seemed to be a chance. In four starts, Yale had not won a game. In the Yale Bowl, where the jinx against Dartmouth is strongest, Yale squeaked through on Callan's touchdown...
...Crimson booters seamed to be playing under a jinx, for at least ten times during the game what seamed sure goals hit the uprights and bounced...
...Senator from Kentucky in the last 30 years has succeeded himself in office. Last month Democrats renominated Senator Alben Barkley for a second term. Last week Kentucky Republicans, greatly heartened by a jinx that favored their candidate, assembled at Louisville, picked Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee. Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an "everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight when the Vice-Presidency was dangled...