Word: talisman
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...turtle called "Illlibuck." Columbia sophomores customarily attempt to acquire living mementos-the Freshman class officers; their efforts in the past have resulted in public riots in Manhattan's crowded Columbus Circle, chases in fleets of taxicabs, bewildered freshmen spending enforced weekends in the suburbs. Yale's talisman is her Fence, stolen last autumn by Harvardmen (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week came news of Leland Stanford...
...last interview, Elizabeth gives him a talisman, a ring by means of which he may, if he wishes, secure her pardon. In his last hour, he entrusts this to the Queen's messenger, a court lady whose love he has spurned. She betrays him, informs Elizabeth that he is still arrogant, has made no mention of the token. When the Queen learns the truth, the axe has fallen. As it has cleaved the neck of Essex, so it splits Elizabeth's aged, remorseful heart...
...flowers crowds six deep gazed and sniffed at President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, two new roses originated by famed Rosarian Lyman B. Coddington of Murray Hill, N. J. President Herbert Hoover is a very harlequin of a rose. Shaded orange, yellow and pink, it is a larger, paler Talisman. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, unlike the delicate yellow Mrs. Calvin Coolidge introduced two years ago, is a rich velvety crimson...
Such a thesis, if tediously expounded a la Bolshevik, might indeed cause hurtful boredom. But as the smart and sprightly Count spurs across Europe, tilting at Nationalisms, he conjures much novelty and wisdom from successive countries with the talisman of sly philosophy. And his spurs, as a gentleman's should, wound not half so often as they stimulate...
Racing to circle the world in 18 days, John Henry Mears has adopted the number 13 as a talisman. Reasons: 1) There are 13 letters in the name of the airplane (City of New York) which carries Racer Mears and Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer across Europe and Asia; 2) the 13 letters in the name of J. D. Rockefeller, who gave each of the globe-circlers a lucky dime; 3) the 13 letters in the name of Standard Oil Co., which "brought Mr. Rockefeller no ill luck"; 4) the first letter of "Mears" is the 13th of the alphabet...