Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being the only duly dicensed woman second in the world. Mr. Tebrinke, nominal head of the family, manages a stable of boxers. These boxers, it is said, clamor to have Mrs. Tebronke in their corner, preferring her to trousered precedent. She knows her job they explain, and brings them luck...
Rubber Tires (Bessie Love). The heroine bundles her family into a rickety automobile, sets out for California and better fortune. Literally, luck is with her, for the manufacturers advertise a huge reward for return of her car. It is the first they ever made -valuable, therefore, by way of contrast. In chasing the party across the continent, the director provides good farce...
...character rather than to the framing of elaborate plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention enough to cover the threadbare situation in which these persons take part...
...Lucky Luck...
...Tunbridge Wells, England, one A. G. Luck last August bet Lloyd's (famed insurers) $150 against $5,000 that his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Dumbreck, would have "two or more children early in 1927." Having found few twins or triplets in the Luck and Dumbreck family trees, Lloyd's waited confidently. Last week Mrs. Dumbreck gave birth to twins; Lucky Luck collected $55000. Many an-other wife urged her husband to bet on her; pius preachermen flayed sinners who gambled on motherhood...