Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chen's luck is proverbial. In 1925 he was kidnaped by soldiers of Chang Tso-lin, against whom he is now fighting, and carried in chains before Chang. That barbaric War Lord, who slaughters even his own followers if they displease him (TIME, July 19), yielded to a whim and let Chen go. "Eugene Chen" is, of course, merely the Anglicism which he adopted as a London lawyer to translate his Chinese name: Chen...
Married. Henry ("Spider Boy") Bulson, to Margaret ("Princess Alahula Harvy") Berry; on the stage of the Harlem Museum, New York. An 8-ft. 4 in. best man, a 36-in. flower girl, a 783-lb. bridesmaid attended the couple. Bearded ladies, tattooed men, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters threw good luck coins as the "Spider Boy" proceeded down the aisle on his hands...
...been trying all day to arrange a tour for this play with some booking agent. The two young women who went out with him the last evening said that they did not think he had had luck because he seemed depressed. All three came home early from a party to the place in which they had their respective apartments, one of those remodeled houses west of Fifth Avenue-a restaurant on the first floor, a dressmaking place on the second. The two girls lived across the hall from Actor Daly. Smoke woke them up in the night. The stairs were...
...inverted, or English, chevron, and then rubbed mud and same into the wounds so that they would stand out prettily. "Nothing is too good for our boy," they probably said, as they dragged him around to the local tattoo expert, to have the Hand of Fatime, (for luck), tattooed on one cheek, and an extremely orthodox crescent on the other. Religion is not easily changed in North Africa...
...Hard luck continues to dog the trail of the University basketball team, it being announced today that M.M. Green '28, regular center on the quintet, would be laid up for three weeks due to a badly sprained ankle received during the vacation. The team has already been hard hit by ineligibility and Green's injury necessitates entirely reforming the first team...