Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first because he is a New York Assemblyman and thereby the political senior of Mrs. Pratt, who is only a New York City Alderman (albeit the first New York woman alderman in history). He is also put first because he drew top place on the ballot, after performing a "luck rite." Just before the drawing, he rushed out of the Board of Elections office and touched a Negro on the shoulder...
...Buddy and Hank. Third coincidence: with Geste's life at stake, Otis had promised to marry a half-caste dancing girl. Honor-bound to keep his loathful promise, he is on the verge of marriage when he discovers her to be his half-sister. With such luck the end cannot but be happy-and the surviving Geste still survives...
...Good Luck," said Paul...
...Subscriber Roe, congratulations on his luck, and the information that a 10-year subscription to TIME may be had upon payment of $30, a reduction of $20 from the annual rate...
...Dominions, providing that he has been assured a job there. . . . But something more is needed. Remember that it was not by a slow, restricted process of immigration, confined to guaranteed employment, that the Dominions were founded and began their splendid history. . . . Our British workpeople . . . who want to try their luck in the Dominions . . . want to use their skill in that spirit of adventure which stirred in the old pioneers. Yet the call for adventurers does not come across to us now, as it used to in the old days. . . . By all means let the Dominion Governments get men from here...