Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Lampoon. The temptation is constant, with all college journalists, to ape the fashions of their seniors, oblivious of the fact that those same seniors would be the first to change their own ways to meet the wishes of a different clientele. This year's Lampoon board, by good luck or greater intelligence, has demonstrated that the Lampoon can do the thing which its editors want to accomplish, best, when they turn its attention to what they know the most about--Harvard. The Faculty might profitably appoint a Committee to investigate the theory that the reason Harvard is just...
...immediately grew serious again, however, and went on, "The whole examination system is wrong. It depends too much upon luck and a certain kind of cleverness. It is just another addition to the useless drudgery which keeps education back...
...other was Thomas Burke, onetime Hardcress Kid, now famed author of Limehouse Nights. While they ate, they telegraphed to each other in a code made up of the names of street corners, taverns, dives, the memories of tattered times. In this book, Mr. Burke writes, for those whom good luck has left happily unfamiliar with that code, the record of his life from the day when he, a waif as woebegone as Poor Tom on Lear's heath, was befriended by Quong Lee, Chinese storekeeper, to the day when his first short story was published. Calm faces of Canton...
...Johnny Dundee's real name is Giuseppe Carriorra. He was born in Sicily. Last week, he was received by Pope Pius XI-the first time such an honor has ever been accorded a pugilist. Said Mr. Dundee (later) to reporters: "That ought to bring luck. I hope I'll knock out the next man I fight...
...Kansas City, Mo., Henry L. Doherty, public utilities man, speaking of selecting new executives for his extensive enterprises, declared : "I don't know why it is, but we always have better luck with Western men. Once in a while an Eastern university graduate makes good, but not so often. Approximately 90% . . . are products of the schools of the Middle West or West...