Word: hard-luck
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...lines out of the Late Show: "You're no chorus girl, you're a singer." "I love to hear an audience applaud, but you can't take an audience home with you." "I can't go-not like this." As Nick Arnstein, Fanny's hard-luck gambler husband, Omar Sharif, of all people, is only required to stand and listen with large liquid eyes. The rest of the cast is simply a Jewish chorus of ooze and ahs mimicking Yiddish locution by ending declarative sentences with a question mark. ("He has polish on his nails...
Like the author, Lyle DeFord is a wanderer come to rest on the West Coast. He is a carpenter, and a good one, a descendant of hardworking, hard-luck ancestors who moved to the U.S. in 1772. He is as old as this century; he rode the rods in the '20s, and after a life of honest work, he subsists on social security. He journeys East for an old relative's funeral, and in New York City he is knocked down by a heart attack. His hand-crafted wooden suitcase is still in hand, his treasured copy...
...Cubs lineup includes three genuine major leaguers to two for the New York Mets. On the mound, Leo Durocher is going with an exciting crop of unproven youngsters like Ferguson Jenkins, Ken Holtzman, Dick Nye, and Ray Culp. Wes Westrum is counting on a stale harvest of sure-fire hard-luck losers: Jack Fisher, Don Cardwell, Bob Shaw, and Ralph Terry...
...Smith remains on the second line in place of Bob Fredo. Fredo, hard-luck player of the Christmas Tournament, received five stitches above his left eye when a B.U. shot caught him in the first game, then was knocked out for good with a shoulder separation in the Cornell game...
Harvard's hard-luck cross-country team evened its season record in one glorious swoop by clobbering Pennsyivants, 17-39, and Columbia, 22-39, in a triangular meet yesterday afternoon at New York's Van Cortlandt Park...