Word: jinxes
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...Jinx Falkenburg, swore her Hollywood pressagent, was something more than a pin-up girl: students at an Army flight school (unnamed) had affixed her picture to planes in a really permanent way-she was the first rivet-up girl ever...
...every moundsman has his jinx...
...this umpteenth attempt to break the jinx, Coach Earl Brown plans no lineup changes. Captain Hugh Hyde, who scored 30 points against Tufts Saturday night to set a new College scoring record, is at center, supported by forwards Dean Sennessey and George Dillon and guards like Fensler and Jack Torgan...
...Freshman Smoker was never like this. All Jinx Falkenburg did was stand and talk. Now that Yardlings are in uniform, Smokers are different. Diosa Costello didn't just stand, and she spoke a different language...
...tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell to the tailcoat...