Word: jinxing
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School for Hope, by Michael McLav erty. A quietly lilting story of how a bachelor schoolmaster and a young schoolmarm overcome a jealous sister and a family jinx (TIME, July...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
Before long Peter is putting in a good word for himself. At 40, he lives with a devoted spinster sister, who intends to hang onto her bachelor brother for dear life, and for life. Tired of fencing with her own love, Nora tells Peter about the TB jinx, and he waves it aside to propose...
YOUR COVER JINX HAS ALWAYS BEEN EFFECTIVE BUT NEVER QUITE SO PROMPT AS IN THE CASE OF NATIVE DANCER. BY THE WAY, IN DANCER'S PEDIGREE YOU HAVE HIS PATERNAL GRAND DAM WRONG; THE DAM OF UNBREAKABLE IS IMPORTED BLUE GLASS, NOT BLUE
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer came the closest to beating the jinx last year. The Dancer was beaten by a nose by long-shot (25-1) Dark Star, for the only defeat of his brief career...