Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridge, the stranger said: "It's a fine night, isn't it?" Answered James Albrecht, an out-of-a-job printer: "Kind of chilly, don't you think?" "Per-haps," said the stranger, "But just look at that beautiful moon." The next thing the stranger said was "Goodbye, good luck and God bless you." As he said this he was falling through the dark air into the river...
Elected. Mary Lewis, 32, blonde, blue-eyed; to the directorate of Best & Co., Manhattan department store. Miss Lewis types rapidly with three fingers, once sold draperies at Macy's for $12 per week, now writes Best & Co. advertising copy. Said she: "Luck...
...home team, having lost its last two games, is trying to regain its winning stride, but bad luck has been following Coach Mitchell's men and has now manifested itself in the bad knew of E. H. McGrath '31, flashy short stop, which may keep him on the side lines. In case McGrath cannot plan his place at short will be taken be Captain G. E. Donaghy '29, while G. Whitney '29 will cover the hot courier and B. H. Ticknor '31 will fill the latter's left field post...
...that of New York, for which he has campaigned, nor of the Philippines, which he would like to get, but of Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...
...Audience. Scientists from the U. S., England, France, Germany and Holland made observations, took photographs. Among the U. S. observers were: Swarthmore's Dr. John Anthony Miller (famed among astronomers for luck-this was his seventh eclipse and all have been clear), in Sumatra; Harvard's Prof. Harlan True Stetson, in the Malay Peninsula; Commander Chester H. J. Keppler of the U. S. Naval Observatory, at Iloilo in the Philippines. Each had a train of assistants...