Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rosie ("Dolly Sisters") Dolly landed at Manhattan last week with her new Dominion husband, Mortimer Davis Jr., tobacco scion. Asked about the amazing luck of herself and twin-sister Jennie, at the baccarat tables in Cannes (TIME, March 12), Mrs. Davis ruefully admitted that luck has turned against Jennie, who has now lost the whole of a spectacular win totaling...
...What luck are you having here...
...next year he went into business for himself. It took him three years to pay off the debts that he incurred in that first enterprise. "I had good luck-I failed when I was young." The boom in Michigan lumber came and went. He was still poor. He went to the Coast. He was 50 before he had enough money to buy a sawmill. Transportation was bad and expensive. He bought the Newsboy, a 300-ton ship, to take his lumber to ports along the Pacific Coast...
...grounding first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...
...courage to face defeat smilingly, to keep your head up, your eyes straight to the front, and to shun the temptation of the primrose path. Carry on till you sing to 'His Glory,' till you can make a weary people forget the troubles of reality. And good luck go with you. Now I shall open my door. I want to go into the arms of my mother, my dad-who always believed in me. Au revoir...