Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also insisted that there was no difference between the two languages, which is not a mistake that many Jews would make. Then Endt tossed the general a Yiddish phrase that almost any Jew would recognize, even one with no formal training in the tongue. "Mazel tov [Good luck]" said Endt as he left. The general, grinning foolishly, was at a loss for words. Finally he replied simply...
...theater, the luck of the English has been the Irish. From Sheridan and Farquhar through Synge, Shaw and O'Casey, Irish-born dramatists have adorned English speech with tears, wit and poetic music. All the great Irish writers possess the gift for lightening or deepening the color of language. They bring to it both a larky playfulness and a brooding melancholy. They are the unofficial patron saints of English, and it is these saints of the word whom the distinguished Irish actress Siobhan McKenna is honoring in a superior one-woman show called Here Are Ladies. Selections...
...spring vacation college-riot-party-guzzle ever since sixth grade (he threw out some 2nd string tackle from L. S. U. in 1963, the year they still had Paul Dietzel and the Chinese Bandits) yes, Patty, the sad-eyed girl, tough Southern dark-haired, drink away the blues, hard luck Patty with the Green Buddha whose stomach she rubbed for good luck every time she left the house. Patty with the burgundy cords, Patty who was as bored as I with Ship of Fools at the No. 1 Drive-In, lovely Patty with the moon-on her face, who dreamed...
...that Mandrake was paying a very low rent. So was Bill Turtle. When Bertha Cohen was found dead in a whirlpool bath several years ago (S, I think) she left no will. The rents on her dilapidated buildings were frozen, and some people, like Bill Turtle, had some good luck. Bill, as you know, makes a pile of money by selling "antiques" to rich folk and junk to poor folk. This is fine and good, and he has prospered. Naturally, when Wasserman bought up the whole estate, normal rents began to come back. You thank your luck for the eight...
...looks as if we're going to have to scramble for everything we can get and hope for a little luck," head coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday. He, too, considers Penn the favorite...