Word: jinxed
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Though Winged Foot is Chapman's home course, few fans gave him much chance to survive six rounds of match play. In the past 35 years, only Bobby Jones had been able to win the championship after the jinx of winning the medal. But deadeye Dick Chapman, who has majored in golf most of his life, was determined to win the U. S. title this year. Three times he had reached the quarter-finals of the British Amateur, two years ago he reached the semi-finals of the U. S. Amateur...
...discussed, but "many matters require further study." Max Gilman apologized for a statement which "you [reporters] will probably think is a dud." It was by no means certain that the contract would be signed. Bill Knudsen's effort to get 9,000 Rolls-Royces seemed to carry a jinx...
...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...