Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Cullitan tried to prove that Don Campbell, president of the Painters District Council, and his crony John McGee, president of the Laborers District Council, were actually racketeers who used their labor affiliation to screen a series of more or less dignified burglaries. Prosecutor Cullitan did not have much luck. When two plain-clothes men were assigned to follow them, Messrs. Campbell & McGee donned frock coats and silk hats, hired an accordion player, a saxophonist and two cars, had the band play Me and My Shadow while they paraded through the streets trailed by the humiliated detectives. Last autumn...
...Light Parade. To the uninitiated, hockey, the fastest game in the world, looks like a haphazard melee in which someone by luck occasionally pokes a puck into a net. But professional hockey players, who are required to make snap decisions while speeding 30 ft. a second, have well-timed plays ready for almost every circumstance that arises, seldom make goals save by effective teamwork. Baseball had its famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance combination, but every big-league hockey team has a forward line (left wing, centre and right wing) that functions with the precision of baseball's great...
...Associates. Without too much discomfort each House could extend its privileges to twenty or thirty extra students, though it is doubtful if libraries which are already crowded during reading periods, could stand any extra packing. The Plan would alleviate the unwarranted discrimination against men who happen to have bad luck in their applications. For, every year the House Master must turn away certain students, because they have only ordinary marks, because an over demand happens to exist in the type of rooms for which they are applying, or any such unjust, though at present necessary, basis for elimination. Dining hall...
First of all a phenomenal succession of injuries has caused the removal of number one men in several middleweight positions. Sickness accounts for others being out of training at the crucial meets. But generally a lack of confidence prevails, due to insidious bad luck...
...long as they had to fight downstate they had better have a more effective campaigner, Bosses Kelly and Nash gave Bill Dieterich his walking papers. Their candidate, they indicated, would be U. S. District Attorney Michael L. Igoe. Irishman Igoe, a Chicago political veteran, had a major stroke of luck when Federal G-men last month captured Peter Anders, confessed kidnapper and murderer of Chicago greeting-card Manufacturer Charles Ross, took him from California to Chicago to be prosecuted by Mike Igoe's office. Candidate Igoe had himself photographed with Kidnapper Anders, got into the newsreels with a talk...