Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered body from the street a letter was found in his apartment. "I cannot face the tangle," it read. "Had they let me know a month ago I would...
With ten Varsity members making the trip, the Harvard basketball team leaves for Princeton this morning to try its luck with the Tiger. Now in a triple tie for third place with Dartmouth and Princeton, a victory tonight coincident with a victory by Yale over Dartmouth will give the Feslermen undisputed possession of third rank in the League standings...
Continually dogged by ill-luck, the Harvard Freshman basketball team went down to another defeat last night in the curtain raiser of the evening's festivities, falling before Dean Academy by the score...
...gives a capable, but decidedly not inspired, performance, while Helen Westley as the Puritannical and tyrannical stepmother, violently overacts her part. Fortunately the Hollywood moguls have seen fit to give O.P. Heggie the role of the sympathetic man of the family, whose mission is to comfort and console the luck-less pair. It is O.P. Heggie's acting which raises the film asinity to the level of mediocrity...
...closely to the actual course of history. Conversations may be invented, but the characters are all out of the past. And Neumann's analysis of personality and motive is strictly in accordance with the probabilities. His Louis Napoleon is the real Louis Napoleon, a mixture of clownishness, perseverance, luck and good judgment...