Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hope Diamond as a pendant to a string of pearls. I not only looked at it but held it in my hand and examined it carefully. Since then I have neither lost my life, nor my mind, nor my appetite. On the contrary, I am quite O.K., and my luck has steadily improved. I don't know how to explain that, except maybe the evil influence was off duty on that particular evening. W. E. WOODWARD...
...Under the new emergency-powers law Premier Laval, assuming that Parliament shortly adjourns for the summer as it was expected to do last week, has four and a half months in which to exercise a fiscal free hand. His best friends dared not predict, could only wish him luck...
Dobbs was a U. S. bum whose wits and luck kept him just a step from the gutter in a Mexican seaport town. The oil boom was dwindling, his luck was beginning to go too, when he met two compatriots in like case, and the three of them agreed to pool their resources, go prospecting for gold. Curtin, like Dobbs, was a greenhorn at the business, but luckily Howard was an oldtime prospector. He led them up through the mountains to a godforsaken spot, set them to work panning for gold dust. After many a long, backbreaking month they each...
...steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along the boulevards or chugs through small-town streets; passengers have to trust to luck to find congenial traveling companions, inasmuch as they are put together in groups of five or less in a compartment which, on the inside, is arranged much after the fashion of European trains...
...Langlois was an educated man, Didier was lower caste, Férol was the scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line taken within 48 hours, because their general had the reputation of a fire-eater and because the regiment was his tested mouthpiece, the exhausted men were routed out of a five-hour sleep and hurried...