Word: luck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the couple displayed pictures of their pet pugs and extolled the good-luck value of an old Russian icon. Said the Duchess: "I'm terribly superstitious, having been brought up in the South-hats on beds, things hung on doorknobs, number 13 and breaking mirrors...
...Simpson became the great and good friend of the Prince of Wales, the reader's heart will go out to Mr. Simpson. From the moment of Wallis' fateful speech to the Prince at the Simpsons' flat in Bryanston Court-"Sir, would you care to take pot-luck with us?"-Mr. Simpson recedes into vagueness. The Prince returned for more and more of Wallis' beef stew-she used a recipe from Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Came the day when she simply could not refuse the Prince's invitation...
...times past, confusion on ticket distribution was just hard luck. But consider the case of some students yesterday. Their envelopes came back with a little note, "Sorry. We got you as close together as possible...
...absence of a single piece of complete fiction is ill-concealed by the make-up changes, which feature a slightly smaller page, with single column print plus big margins. The return of the men who ought to be writing for the Advocate will, however, with luck, permit abandoning the new format, since it causes considerable eyestrain and is less than lovely, despite a distinctly attractive typeface...
...fact that the "unknowns" are on view at all is pure luck. Last spring brisk, greying Edith Halpert, 55. owner of the Downtown Gallery, went to Europe on a ten-day vacation. In the familiar busman's-holiday pattern, she took time to drop in on Rome's 62-year-old American Academy. After a look at what the young Americans were doing there, she promptly started buying their work. And concluding that they rated a show, she turned her ten-day vacation into a three-week business trip that included Florence and Paris...