Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale University Dramatic Asso-Boston in over 10 years, when it comes here to present its annual spring play at the Repertory Theatre on Monday, April 12. The play which was written by a Yale graduate, Thomas Cushing '02, is a war comedy called "Out o'Luck." The production is under the auspices of the Yale Club of Boston, which has already made preparations to receive the undergraduate dramatists...
...adhesive tape. The tape was supporting some small, cold, metallic object. He wrenched it loose, the Evening World's "magic key," and returned to the Pulitzer Building. There he explained to Douglas Fairbanks-who had been retained for the occasion to hand out the $1,000-what sheer luck it was that he had happened to be sitting on that particular bench, the tenth in the row, when he figured out the clue...
...removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste as was her "Mr. A." By better luck than judgment she keeps her perch until the entries end with: "Stupendous Discovery! Mr. A. is in Venice." There, an envoi assures us, she eloped at last, later mollifying her parent and bearing Mr. A. a round dozen of lusty offspring...
...with the blind fling with which the gods dash the cup from mortal lips. Proverb calls it the slip. Werfel does not bother to define it. He is simply eaten up with a gigantic bitterness at a world which is given reason and at the same time irresistible fate, luck or a divinity that rips reason to ribbons. Werfel is annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After...
...event of the evening, as far as the pubic goes will be the 40-yard dash for the Major Briggs trophy. It will combine the stars of all the sprint events in the K. of C. and Millrose A. A. games. Milland and Burns will try their luck against the collection of the world's greatest sprinters. Coach Farrell says of Miller's performance in New York Thursday night against a fair representation of these stars, "There was no daylight to be seen between Miller and Murchison at the finish of the dash at Madison Square Garden Thursday night. Murchison...