Crossword-Solution: MASCOTS 7 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Doesn't believe in his luck.” There were mascots for luck, at the doorways of their dugouts--a woman's face carved in chalk, the name of a girl written in pebbles, a portrait of the King in a frame of withered wild flowers.

You must have noticed how our soldiers at the Front and our sailors in the Fleet all seem to have their pet animals and mascots, and when I was in France I noticed on many occasions our men playing with the little French children among their ruined homes close up to the firing line.

But a seventh son of a seventh son like you, a human horseshoe like you, a king of mascots like you--they don't make them nowadays.

Coeval with their revival of primitive language-moulds in their slang, many of our college societies and sporting clubs and associations have revived the beliefs just mentioned in their mascots and luck-bringers--the other side of the shield showing the "Jonahs" and those fetiches of evil import.

Beneath this, which we may call the transcendental aspect of the play, we find a solid and objective study of the self-made man, the headstrong amateur, who has never submitted to the wholesome discipline of professional training, but who has trusted to the help of those trolls or mascots, his native talent and his unfailing "luck." Upon such a man descends Hilda, the disorganizer, who pierces the armor of his conceit by a direct appeal to his passions.