Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smith laughed and stood up. "Mr. President," he said, "I wish you health, success and all the good luck in the world...
...feel more inclined, however, to sympathize with the "man who dropped the punt" and "Riegels who ran the wrong way". These poor fellows had the bad luck to commit before thousands of spectators sensational blunders which were immediately broadcast country-wide by radio and press. Now, according to Mr. "Possum" Pixlee's plan, on doning their street clothes, with the harrowing details still all too fresh in their minds, they would have to sit down and record on paper the story of their misfortunes for their own future edification...
...Walter Chrysler denied that he still had an interest in Pug Knute Hansen, recently battered by one K. 0. Christner. He wished to Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. luck with Pug Rene de Vos, in whom Biddle Jr. purchased an interest ]ast fortnight...
...foreign invasion from the East frightened the monks who piled up in that cave all their manuscripts and paintings, and walled up the entrance. They must have been killed or scattered, and the memory of the hoard died out. It was rediscovered by chance in 1900, but luck had it that in the course of the next few years no Chinese scholar happened to pass through Tun-Huang, and thus the largest collection of ancient manuscripts found in modern times came to the hands of Sir Aurel Stein and myself. When I reached Peking, I gave notice to the Chinese...
...found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...