Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Better luck attended the limelight performance of Voit Gilmore, 20, chairman of the nonpartisan, undergraduate Carolina Political Union (and president of his Chi Psi chapter). He began working last summer to get the foremost U. S. political orator of the age down to Chapel Hill to address his group, which prides itself on paying no honorariums and on cross-questioning its speakers when they are through. His college president, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, Senators Josiah Bailey and Bob Reynolds, Representative Bob Doughton and officials of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. at Winston-Salem (where Voit Gilmore lives) all helped...
...Luck, Wis., day before the Midvale smash, a Soo Line train drove into a school bus at a grade crossing, killed the woman driver and three children, critically injured five others...
Hinton, who has been skiing for the past eight or nine years, has never had a major accident. He attributed this record to carefulness and to luck...
Before the opening performance buxom Neapolitan Soprano Maria Caniglia was found crawling about the Met's splintery stage in search of bent nails. Reason: An old Neapolitan superstition that bent nails mean luck. She found a half dozen, toted them about with her while she sang the part of Desdemona in the season's opener, Otello. Thus equipped, Soprano Caniglia sang lustily, was lustily choked in the last act by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) who finally covered her face with a pillow. The performance over, she had the ecstatic satisfaction (see cut) of being smothered again by flowers...
...chance may it be a luck one!" she says, "I learned your address. When you were studying at the Vienna University two years ago you surely had occasion to get acquainted with Viennese people and to esteem them. May I therefore with regard to those, I daresay, happy and pleasing days utter a certainly very immodest request which nevertheless might be fulfilled...