Word: luck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit and raconteur, became an off-Broadway actor, appeared with Jack Paar on the Tonight show, tended bar as part owner of an East Side joint named Malachy's and later, down on his luck, smuggled gold ingots strapped about his portly person into India...
...grew up in Jamestown, N.Y., where her father, an electrician, died when she was just three. At 15 she began making forays to New York City to try to break into show business. She had little luck as an actress but worked as a model before moving to Hollywood in 1933 for a part in the chorus of Roman Scandals. Strikingly pretty, with chestnut hair dyed blond (until MGM hairdressers, seeking a more distinctive look, turned it red in 1942), she landed bit parts in B movies and moved up to classy fare like Stage Door, in which she held...
Heading into the spring campaign, the Crimsonwas hoping for better luck...
...when Huang arrived at Harvard, her luck began to change. First, near the end of her fall semester, Huang had to change classes because one of her TFs had been making harassing calls to her late at night. Then, right before finals, one of her best friends, Dominic Armijo '95, committed suicide. After filling out a police report and being sent to talk to psychiatrists, Huang was sent home to cope with the death. She also missed two finals which she had to make up in the middle of midterms during the spring semester...
Huang's bad luck continued. A week before spring finals, Huang found out she had a urinary tract infection. While being treated, which should have been a fairly standard process, Huang experienced complications that led to a kidney infection, excess fluid in her lungs and eye problems. Huang got out of the hospital the night before her first final. Though she hadn't studied, she took her exams because she didn't want to go through taking makeups again...