Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, one Burton Parquette, 23, arrested last week, pleaded with policemen: "Let me run. If you shoot me, all well and good. If I get away, that's my good luck. I can't stand being locked up." They jailed him. Later they found him writhing. He had pulverized the lenses of his eyeglasses and swallowed the grit. He was expected...
...Good luck to you, TIME. Run your own paper in your own way. You've made a success, unique, distinctive. Your critics couldn't have done it and they cannot tell you how to do it. Pay no attention to concellations which only purge your lists of those who do not belong to the cognoscente...
Unlucky. Among the first utterances of Passenger Levine, after landing in Germany, was a cablegram to the Hearst press: "Lindbergh was lucky and we were not. If we had had one-tenth of Lindbergh's luck, we would have done much better. The wind was against us 75% of the way. . . . Still, we flew for 44 hours, and covered 4,400 miles as against Lindbergh's 33½ hours and 3,600 miles. But Lindbergh was lucky and we were...
Lord Elgin made the most of his good luck. Putting a broad interpretation upon his carte blanche, he proceeded to divest the Parthenon of its rarest ornaments-pediment, friezes, metopes, statuary. He proceeded as a private individual, without authority of parliament, with only private encouragement of public men. Hundreds of natives were employed in excavating, removing. The people of Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows...
...Instruments. Over and over again "Lucky" had repeated that his "luck" had consisted chiefly in a faultless motor, a periscope by which he watched ahead without exposure, and in an earth induction compass by which alone he steered to a point within three miles of his theoretic arrival point in Ireland...