Word: jinxing
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...left foot, crushing it. Though my supple feet and ankles constitute great assets to me in my escapes from fetters, piano boxes, safes and other receptacles, I risked swelling and infection, stayed on the stage, did other tricks. Afterwards one of my staff said something about a 'jinx,' whereat I rebuked him sharply, 'There is no such thing as a jinx.' An Albany newspaper said, 'There is a line worth writing in the copybooks . . . Only the sagbacks blame the jinx...
...Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, motored with the President 46 miles to Follonsby Pond, where they fished the stocked pool belonging to the Barbour Lumber Company of Paterson, N. J. The Attorney General, reputedly ablest angler of Vermont, caught nothing. The President caught nothing, called Attorney General Sargent a jinx...
...Jinx One Lester Price, 23, ambled through Philadelphia's narrow streets. He was hungry, tired, and just after passing a cathedral's steps he noted a door open in a nearby residence. He entered, slept, awoke hours later, beheld a safe the lock of which opened readily. He beheld cash, bonds, ecclesiastical jewelry, a chalice and a golden, diamond-studded cross belonging to the owner of the residence, Cardinal Dougherty. Lester took the jewelry, cash, bonds, valued at $4,000-left the chalice and cross worth over $25,000. "I knew they would jinx me," he said when...
Cruickshank. At Pinehurst, the jinx that has long dogged Bobby Cruickshank, professional golfer, eased up and let him win last week the united North and South open championship, in 293. Jock Hutchinson, 301, came second...
Today, Brown will have to break a jinx long-standing in college football, that of losing when dedicating a home stadium. Dartmouth is the best-known dedicator of other college's stadiums, but Yale has high hopes of dedicating Brown's horseshoe in a manner that will disapprove the Providence cohorts. Twenty-seven thousand people are expected to see the game