Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Demicratic ticket was elected? all but himself. In 1907 he backed his campaign manager for sheriff ?as a Republican. In 1909 he ran again for Mayor of New York and lost. In 1910 he ran for Lieutenant Governor and lost. His ventures were attended with worse and worse luck at the polls. He has never been able to get the same circulation on the ballot that he got for his papers...
...playing in the smaller cities. The Broadway troupe is headed by Louise Groody and Charles Winninger, as pretty a dancer and as funny a fool as the town now boasts. Mr. Winninger is a married man with a soft heart and a fat head. He falls for the hard luck stories of wandering females and helps to finance their lonely lives. To this his wife, quite properly, objects. There is much excellent dancing and two conspicuous, if now a little elderly, song hits, "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy...
...Luck...
...Waterman, famed fountain pen maker, was being congratulated on having received the Republican nomination for Mayor, an old man sat in a vacant office on Madison Ave. staring at a fountain pen of antique design. He, Warren N. Lancaster, onetime business rival of the famed Waterman, told reporters how luck had undone...
...with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good luck in it this time, he would fly that plane, or its duplicate, in the International Races at Baltimore next month...