Word: talisman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul is potent now chiefly because the name of HINDENBURG is still so great that Chancellor Hitler is glad to buy this talisman by humoring the President's simple wants. He was more than prepared to bow to the Reichspräsident's will and keep on in office Old Paul's "best comrade" and favorite among all his bygone Chancellors, Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen, a brother officer in the Feldmarschall's old regiment...
...north end. Behind one of those windows last week a U. S. teacher named Arthur Fletcher was taking time off from his research duties in the Institute of the Monopoly of Foreign Trade to pore over a bourgeois treasure the museum director had found for him: The Talisman in Sir Walter Scott's first draft...
...stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little spouse, who subsequently realizes that he can advance his coy campaign for the emancipation of men by giving Hercules what he came for, the girdle of Diana. When Hercules skulks off with this talisman, the Amazons' power over their men goes with it. The Amazon army surrenders as promptly and completely as could be expected...
Football tradition at Lawrenceville School says that if the captain of the team wears a certain red shirt the day before the game with Hill, Lawrenceville cannot possibly lose; but if Lawrenceville does lose, the shirt will remain a potent talisman if immediately washed. Last week at Lawrenceville a debate was still in progress: whether or not to wash the shirt. Captain Fred Janney had put it on before the Hill game; the game had ended in a tie, 7 to 7. That was three weeks ago. Lawrenceville ended its otherwise successful season with a 13 to 6 beating from...
...sole purpose of endowing them with such delightful devices, and pretty soon the only thing that remains is a rather soiled sheet with some charcoaled smears. Perhaps not the only thing for the girl next door may hide under her pillow at night the sacred horseshoe nail ring, the talisman of the clan...