Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Death alters circumstances. Good humor before is not always good taste afterward. It was bad luck for a number of publishers that Mr. Bryan died shortly after he had once again focused the limelight upon himself and they were just about to caricature...
...more of those complicated compasses varying to every point in the circle except the point of actual guilt. A few minutes before you go home, the true offender is ferreted out, love is rewarded, justice triumphs. Grant Mitchell, an excellent actor who has run into a rude streak of luck since the cheerful months in The Tailor-made Man, is again making the best...
...team from the Chevy Chase Country Club in Washington failed to provide any stronger opposition than had been the team's due so far. At Baltimore, however, the University players ran into stiff competition and in the singles Whitbeck and Briggs were the sole survivors. In the doubles the luck was a little better and both Whitbeck and Cummings and Briggs and Perkins emerged victorious over the Country Club players...
Crawley's luck in the fifth inning was sensational. He entered the game with one out, and Keene on third, whither he had proceeded after walking, on Ellison's two-bagger. Crawley walked Zarakov, loading the bases. Todd was due for a hit, and he lined one of the hardest hit balls of the afternoon straight at Di Giovanni. The diminutive second baseman stopped it with one hand and caught it with the other just before it dropped to the ground, retiring the side by doubling up Zarakov at first...
...politician, he is considered little better than a failure and as a statesman, untried. His difficulties in stepping into the shoes of the late popular Mr. Massey are manifest. His friends in New Zealand, while wishing him the best of luck, are, therefore, dubious as to whether he is the right man to lead the Reform Party and head the Government...