Word: talismans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affectation, the Arliss eyeglass, which has ribbed a groove into his right cheek, has long since been more than an optical necessity, more than a symbol of a political and social heritage, like the monocle of Sir Austen Chamberlain (TIME, Feb. 15). It is a trademark, a talisman, the badge of an intelligence which views humanity with graceful hauteur and interprets it with charm. A vegetarian, because it hurts his conscience to eat anything he might have patted, Cinemactor Arliss wears high shoes, likes slang, has never driven an automobile, hopes some day to be knighted...
...named Orpheus made itself at home last week in Chicago's expensive Blackstone Hotel. It was the honored guest of Mrs. Ben Rubenstein, wife of a British timber merchant. As Conchita Supervia, Mrs. Rubenstein was in Chicago to sing Carmen with the Civic Opera Company. The turtle was her talisman.* Never before had she found one sturdy enough to weather touring. She had always depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather turtle...
...Supervia's Orpheus is probably the bulkiest, most troublesome talisman on record. But nearly all musicians are superstitious, carry some sort of charm. Arturo Toscanini keeps sewed in his dress clothes' pocket a picture of his three children taken when they were little and a visiting card on which Composer Giueseppe Verdi sent him New Year's greetings shortly before he died. Caruso used to have every costume made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano...
...bearishly small decrease in acreage, rose throughout the world. Textiles rose in the U. S. and on the great Manchester Royal Exchange. In the Chicago wheat-pit, 36 stories under the 40-ft, 15-ton aluminum statue of Ceres which is the Chicago Board of Trade Building's talisman, grains rallied smartly, sent the theoretical total value of U. S. grains up $300,000,000. On the New York Rubber Exchange, where recently less than a dozen members have come down to trade, the volume increased 500%. Speculative buying from Wall Streeters was credited with having much...
That evening, at a military ball Mrs. Ely got 150 talisman roses, and the Governor danced about briskly with officers' wives...