Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, to Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner came one of those incredible strokes of luck that make newspaper life worth living. Robert Irwin, the most sought-after murderer then at large in the U. S. (TIME, April 12), had just telephoned the Chicago Tribune ("Worlds Greatest Newspaper"), offered to surrender for a price, was not believed. So he called the Hearst paper, had his terms accepted, and slouched into their offices to pour out the story of the Gedeon murders in a voluminous, jumbled, sex-loaded signed confession. From late Saturday until Sunday afternoon Hearst writers and cameramen...
That was enough for the court and the derisive spectators who packed it. The court offered "kind" Mrs. Tuttle the choice of $500 fine or a year in jail. As she paid and walked out, the spectators growled with satisfaction, wished her no luck on her appeal...
...colleen?" the Vagabond repeated several times, much like a badly-scratched phonograph record. He had learned that repetition was the polite way of confessing ignorance. With no little sense of awe and appreciation of his luck he was walking with Byron Piccup along the bechildrened pavements in front of Dunster House; a few feet ahead lay their destination in the form of a lighted, whistling popcorn and hotdog stand. Yes, with Byron Piccup...
HENRY OF NAVARRE-Marcelle Vioux- Dutton ($3.50). Well-spiced biography of Henry IV, saluting the talents and good luck which enabled him to survive the machinations of his mother-in-law. Catherine de Medici, the rigors of his large-scale lovelife, overexposure to Catholic armies...
...With luck, Author Wilkins thinks Kidd might have stayed on the right side of the law. But his luck was out. His crew, a hard lot, was mutinous, more than half piratical from the start. And when he did bump into a pirate he sometimes embarrassingly turned out to be an old friend. At that Kidd managed to capture several apparently legal prizes...