Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked as to what his most thrilling experience has been, the Count told of a time when he was hedged in by a blockade of British ships. "Luck was with me. Tremendous hurricane, and it was the shortest day of the year, December 21. It was dark from 4 in the afternoon till 9.30 the next morning. It was only a pirate's chance. We run. Then we get out of the blockade and thank God for our escape when we meet an 18,000 ton cruiser and were examined by her for two hours. I was a Norwegian captain...
...city of New Orleans to their watch chains. Famed flyers, they have finally worked northward to the U. S. From France across the South Atlantic, up through South America, they have been spreading the gospel of French goodwill. Via Pensacola, Fla., they aim for Manhattan. Thence, given good luck, they will complete an immense wandering with a non-stop flight to Paris...
...just before the Leviathan was ready, Harold A. Cunningham was senior officer of the U. S. Lines and Herbert Hartley, having had the bad luck to run aground first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, was a skipper without a ship and with no great hopes of getting one. Last week, Mr. Hartley himself retold the "fluke" by which he became Commodore...
...haven't given any indication as to the Presidential candidacy. . . . I have not intimated to any one what I plan to do in the convention. I am not obliged to take any position. There is luck in leisure"?Andrew Mellon...
...under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce and quick-witted, whenever he waves his malacca wand he waves it with invariable accuracy at whichever younger brother to Cinderella best deserves the good luck of recognition...