Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran skipper. All the King's warships in Portsmouth, the French warship Bison, the King's yacht Victoria & Albert, and the fleet of yachts gathered for summer sail- ing in Ryde, Cowes, Calshot were signaling good luck, but the west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago, was not able...
Learning that 250 Canadian authors would convene in Montreal this month, Author Rudyard Kipling, sailing from Montreal to England, expressed surprise that there were so many of them. Said he: "Wish them good luck for me. It's an awful trade. I mean...
...Jones badly enough in the U. S. amateur, in which only the highest 32 qualifiers are allowed to start. In the British Amateur there is no medal play elimination and the winner may be someone who, whether a good or middling golfer, happens to have a long streak of luck. The excitement was to see who would put Jones out, as in previous years. Anxious to be on hand when this happened, prodigious crowds swarmed over St. Andrews day after day. People pushed each other into ponds and bunkers.* Stewards shouted and waved red flags. Three times it took more...
Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
Bromley's Luck. Last June Lieut. Harold Bromley raced his low-wing Lockheed down a runway for a Tacoma-to-Tokyo flight. Gasoline splashed in his eyes. Out of control, the plane ground-looped, broke into pieces. In September the late Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy testflew an identical plane for Bromley. Part of the tail surfaces washed away. Fahy was severely injured. Last week Bromley's third Tacoma-Tokyo ship burst into flames over the Mojave desert, near the Lockheed plant at Burbank, Calif. Testpilot M. W. Catlin was horribly burned...