Word: mascotism
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Blanketed and heavily chaperoned, the Army mule will make its-first appearance on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The Missouri mascot has been conveyed to Cambridge in a special box car, the first time he has been taken so far afield...
...mule owes its status as the cadet mascot to the tenacity and endurance it displays under fire. "If the mule kicks, he cannot pull; if he pulls, he cannot kick" was the catchword of artillerists during the war. The saying has been taken up by the West Pointers as being applicable to their disciplined four years of routine...
Murders. In the early hours of a Philadelphia morning three men with shotguns murdered a hunchback, a month ago. He was weazened, four-foot Hughie McLoon, 27, saloon keeper, prizefight manager, onetime mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Standing beneath a street lamp, he made an easy target. The assassins whizzed away into darkness...
...tall, Celtic, peaceable. In their looks there is none of that impish cruelty which is supposed by many to account for the condition of their cats. One of these last, a baleful creature with listless and ungraceful motions, attended the congress of the Manxmen, in the capacity of mascot...
June 24: Lieut. Einar-Paal Lundborg, Swedish stunt flyer, lands airplane at Nobile's camp, rescues Chief Pilgrim Gen. Nobile, also the bitch-mascot Titina. But on a second flight to the camp, Lieut. Lundborg wrecks his plane, marooning himself with castaways...