Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year later, she married a brilliant diplomat?John Wallace Riddle, but bad luck on the ocean continued to harass her and, a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 23), Mr. Riddle was forced to resign his post as Ambassador to Argentina because her health forbade her venturing again upon the ocean...
Traditions Noted. "When a Bedouin woman loses her husband, she is kept 40 days without washing and nobody sees her. . . . It is supposed to bring very bad luck to anybody who sees her on the day of the first bath...
...indeed. To the reporter the city editor confided certain instructions. This James W. ("Jimmy") Elliott was a business man whose hard luck had made him famed. Already the public had invested over $7,000,000 in schemes of his, all of which had turned out to be rather less sound than Mr. Elliott had so confidently declared...
Fresh from a 70-55 victory over Andover, the Freshman track team will today try its luck against Exeter. Exeter is reputed to be better than its great rival this season some ten or 15 points, which points to a neck and neck fight at Exeter this afternoon...
Greetings Sir--In glancing casually through our files, we chanced to read your name in connection with a triviality of $900. The discovery was amazing, a sheer piece of luck, which we wish you to share. Nothing could be more painful to the management than that non-settlement of this peccadillo, this bagatelle, this merest nothing, should prey upon your conscience. We assure you, therefore, it is absolutely payable immediately. A check for this drollery will close your most desirable account, and we insist on this lest its postponement give you anxiety. Solicitously yours...