Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people seem to have married on the "Grand Canawl," the usual relationship being that of captain & cook. Molly is cooking for Jotham Klore, a profane, hard-drinking bully boy who seldom passes a lock without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...
...small sure thing to a large chance. Last summer Sidney Freeman Jr. went along, watched his father trade $100,000 cash for Epsom Derby lottery tickets which won some $225,000 (TIME, June 18). After that lesson Sidney Sr. decided that Sidney Jr. was ready to try his luck alone...
...year ago Schumann would have been a regular if he hadn't had tough luck with an injury. This fall his long stretch without much contact work resulted in a slow start which he has only overcome within the last couple of weeks. Hitherto he has ranked below the other two, but West Point may give him his chance to get back at the top of the ladder...
First fatality of the race brought Death to two Britons, Flying Officer Harold D. Gilman and Amateur Pilot James Baines. Bad luck had plagued them from the start. Taking off from Rome, 10,000 miles behind the race leaders, they crashed near Palazzo San Gervasio, were burned beyond recognition...
...rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated at public schools and libraries, by odd jobs and semi-starvation, William Saroyan began to write in his teens. But, says he, "I am not a writer at all. ... I write because there is nothing more civilized or decent for me to do." When, last winter, his first