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Word: luck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Combine Clara Bow, a sour moral, and "it" and you can only trust to luck Frank Strayer trusted--so this week finds "Rough House Rosie" sending thrills into the cerebral mud of local fandom at the Metropolitan...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

Much has been made of the "luck" of the "flying fool". Yet not luck but courage, heroism will inspire those who remember what the son of a Detroit school teacher has done in attemptiny this sensational experiment not alone in aviation but in manliness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROICS-1927 | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

WITH the inevitable comparison to Pluck and Luck," "Of All Things" and "Love Conquers All" staring it in the face, Mr. Benchley's latest collection of scientific discussions, little home-talks and slightly drunken essays is perilously close to having to take a back seat. But close as the perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud...

Author: By J. H. S. ., | Title: THE EARLY WORM. By Robert Benchley '12. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...revolution in Mexico. His motive: to irritate the U. S. into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president of the U. S. Casually remarks cryptic-tongued Joe Cobb (Osgood Perkins), "brains" of the Martin Henderson office: "If they ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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