Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golfers have learned that the British Amateur golf championship takes a lot of luck. The elimination match rounds are only 18 holes, giving any unknown with one good round in his system a chance to knock over a celebrity. Only three U. S. golfers have ever won it: Walter Travis in 1904; Jess Sweetser in 1926, reeling with fever in a final against a player who did not know how to use a brassie; and Robert Tyre Jones II in 1930, beating down luck with mechanical golf...
Toward a spot on the Atlantic 47 mi. west of Fastnet Light, off the tip of southern Ireland, three men were hurrying last week. They had no rendezvous. It was sheer luck that when Louis T. Reichers set his crippled monoplane down in a sea whipped up by a nasty blow, Captain George Fried of the S. S. Roosevelt, famed for his North Atlantic rescues, was there with his equally famed Chief Officer Harry Manning to send overside in a lifeboat. Chief Officer Manning yanked Pilot Reichers out of his foundering plane, unharmed save for a broken nose, a lacerated...
STROKE OF LUCK; DREAM OF DESTINY ? Arnold Bennett ? Doubleday...
Stroke of Luck tells of Etta Wickham-stead who, to escape poverty, took to the stage. As Ruth Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta...
...Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L.("Tex") Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr.; of California, Speaker John Nance Garner, Senator Huey...