Word: talisman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side of the jumping posts. Many athletes believe that in a cast-off shoe, as in a saint's relic or the trophy of a holy war, lodges some curious potency ; and who shall say that Osborne's was not charmed? For, after acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured his distance, sprang from the ground higher than ever a man had hoisted his body before at an indoor meet. As he crossed the bar, his leg touched it, set it to tottering. Seated on the ground, Osborne looked imploringly up. Nearby, mute, sat the magic shoe...
...exploits that led, apparently, nowhere; Sally the beautiful, and their engagement, broken, mended, broken; Sally, the unlucky, crushed pitilessly by circumstance she was not steely enough to defy; meeting Janet, at that time a child, and, from the contact of her fearlessness, making himself some sort of talisman against the crazy world. And then, years later, meeting Janet again...
Such is the major value of Richard the Lion-Hearted. Readers of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman will recall the story as somewhat diffuse of dramatic transposition. There are central characters in superfluity. The King figures in the spotlight but he is too ancient for throbbing sentiment. Accordingly, Sir Kenneth, Knight of the Leopard, is included to play foil for Lady Edith Plantagenet. An amazing trick dog is present. Many hundreds of film feet are devoted to the Sultan Saladin, Saracen opponent of Richard in the Third Crusade. The scene is Palestine...