Word: luck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan an aeroplane wrote "Good Luck" in smoke overhead while Minnie Schlacht and Morris Zuckerbrod were being married...
...that the other will do. Mrs. Rinehart works swiftly and constantly. Her life has been a succession of amazing successes; but they have come as a result of a genius for understanding the public mind, an acquired ability to write, an unusual executive sense, and a gift for fortune-luck if you like. This luck of Mrs. Rinehart's is not a myth. Shooting, she will bring down a bird on the wing-to her own surprise; fishing, she will be the only one to make a catch...
...deposited their alms. Then on Christmas Eve, when the box had got full and heavy, the poor apprentice and his like would break the box open and thereupon have a jolly Christmas. Only the tightest Scrooge refused its invitation, and always was he followed by six months of bad luck...
...Christmas boxes". But there are Red Cross Seals, the Salvation Army, and the old woman organ grinder sitting on the sidewalk. These may be left to Santa Claus by any one who believes in him, but only men on the Dean's list can afford six months of bad luck...
Among the objects of interest in the collection assembled by him are several valuable prehistoric stone axes and other implements from southern Cameroon, such as are handed down from generation to generation in the native families to give good luck and to keep the dead from tormenting them. One of these stones is put into the water in which each newly-born child is bathed, to bring it luck...