Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Luck. "As for luck, I do not think that it is much of a factor in the success of men. I should say that it much more depends upon being prepared to take advantage of luck when it comes along...
...themselves very lucky when they escape the divertissement which Boston's Finest Moving Picture Theatre offers its patrons, but the next time we go, we're going to reverse our last schedule, and instead of missing the prelude, we'll miss the feature. And it will be just our luck to fall to see Adolphe Menjou
...hours of the Civil War when General Grant came out of the West to take command of the Union army, who was the one man, the only man in that vast throng of blue-coated soldiery to greet the lonely general with a friendly, "Hello, Ulysses old horse! Good luck!" Who was it, I repeat? It was my grandfather, Corp. Ephraim Forecast. And you know...
...King's only anxiety was that the motor should not fail, but as His Majesty said to me: 'It responded as though made human by the necessity.' And he never lost a tire on the way. Luck was with...
WAYS OF ESCAPE-Noel Forrest -Little, Brown ($2). All blessings fell to Stephen Heath, arrogant brave, self-sufficient British parent. "Heath's luck? I look ahead and leave nothing to chance," said he. Yet his friend, Paul Kenyon, prophesied that he would pay for his happiness "to the uttermost farthing." He did. One child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting...