Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hail to Yale and the best of luck to Ed. Leader, if his crew goes to the Olympics this summer, but haven't you overlooked Chas. E. Courtney's record at Cornell 1885-1920 when you state in your May 14 issue that "no other coach has turned out as consistently fine crews as Leader...
...ability to put off until tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries are dead or retired after lives which in few cases approached his for fullness or success. "There's luck in leisure," he said last autumn when newsgatherers importuned him for a political utterance. As a political sidestep, it was a neat phrase, but it was more than that. It summed up a good deal of the philosophy of a man who understands that the wisdom of power...
Metropolitan--W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin in "Fools For Luck"'. Funny in spots, but not what one ought to get from two comedians as good as these...
...Fields and Chester Conklin are the protagonists in "Fools for Luck", the Paramount comedy at the Metropolitan is week. The team performs much as usual in a picture based on the adventures of a slick promoter who comes to a small town with a get rich quick scheme. A grip full of oil stock, the beautiful daughter of Huntersville's leading citizen, small town life de luxe, all these things are mixed up in a rather ordinary film which has a few lsolated laughs and moments of spirited action...
David Rubins, the 25-year-old prize-winning sculptor, chattered with pleasure when told of his good luck. He said that his father was a Minneapolis mural decorator, that he had learned most about sculpture from his present employer and that he had four years ago won the Beaux Arts Paris Prize, which had already given him one year's study abroad...