Word: talisman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...planes. With them climbed Hubert R. Knickerbocker, U. S. newspaperman representing the Hearst newspapers; also Baron Gunther von Huehnefeld, publicity man for the North German Lloyd steamship line. Both passengers were ignorant of airplanes. They took no mascots. Said Captain Koehl: "Gasoline, plenty of it, is your best talisman...
...sought out, courted by Europeans who know in what esteem President Calvin Coolidge holds silent but upstanding Dr. Klein. The President has said (TIME, April 11) that Julius Klein is the best informed man in the Government Service on the Administration's economic policy. Such words are a talisman to fame. When Dr. Klein reached Geneva, it was whispered that his are the ears of President Coolidge at the Economic Conference...
...Mothers, sisters, wives-but most of all, neighbors-of the young men who years ago flew in France, affected surprise and concern upon discovering that it was not, after all, a very "nice" war. The young men hated their duty and believed, according to this writer, that the best talisman for an airman was "a garter taken from the left leg of a virgin in the dark of the moon...
Again the world's indoor record for the running high jump was broken by Harold Osborne-he of the old shoe (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week, in Chicago, he once more brought out his dilapidated track shoe, talisman of victory, looked upon it lovingly, leaped from the ground, cleared the bar at 6 ft. 6⅞* in. at the Central A. A. U. games...
...knowing-as more constant readers of the Graphic know -that this sheet itself is not always above judicious juggling of news, of photographs, placed the editorial in his pocket as a talisman against falsehood, trudged back along the wagon-road to his once-cheerful kitchen...