Word: talismans
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...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...
...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...