Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Luck...
...just come on recently, and I never had any trouble before. In college I never got amnesia or even fainting spells. I never even considered such a stunt as I recently read about of one of your boys paddling to Florida in a canoe, Have you had any luck with later life maladjustments? Very sincerely, Harold A. Gorilla...
...Lady Luck, the Federal income tax, and the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes did not combine in astronomical figures for any member of the University who was doing his bit for charity, but five persons under the name of "The Harvard Syndicate" are each $100 richer today...
...while a group of Bowery derelicts were momentarily herded from the desk. After the prisoner had been searched, Desk Lieutenant Simon P. Breen remarked as though one of the neighborhood boys had gone wrong: "Mr. Whitney, I'm sorry to see you in this trouble and wish you luck...
...commercial airlines the close watch kept on planes at airports makes unauthorized free rides next to impossible. One night last week in Indianapolis, 23-year-old John Henry Hagaman, after bumming his way by hitchhiking and rod-riding over most of North America, thought he would try his luck by air. His mother was in flood-stricken Van Nuys, Calif, and he wanted to get home in a hurry. Slipping aboard a T. W. A. transport during a routine, 20-minute halt, he locked himself in the toilet. Aloft a few minutes later, the disheveled young man appeared before...