Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have attributed many ambitions to Harry Ford Sinclair: to clear his name of the Teapot Dome charges; to own another horse like his famed Zev; but mostly to build a billion-dollar oil company, an ambition worthy of his luck and judgment. Last week's report that Sinclair had succeeded, pictured a merger of the following...
...also in 1930, ill luck overtook Dr. Doyle. U. S. District Attorney Charles Henry Tuttle, then a Republican gubernatorial aspirant, tried to smoke out Tammany corruption by charging the retired horse doctor with income tax evasion. Prime purpose of the charge, of course, was to find the person or persons who had made Dr. Doyle's special pleadings so invincible and with whom he may have split some $2,000,000 worth of fees. A Manhattan jury dismissed one of the two income tax charges against him. The other case hung fire. The Tuttle investigation into the Scandals...
BEGINNERS LUCK ? Emily Hahn ? Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...Emily Hahn's first book, Seductio ad Absurdum, was not only funny but shrewd. Beginners Luck, her second, is more ambitious than a marshmallow. but a marshmallow it is. Blake had been kicked out of an Eastern prep school for being a menace to the community. Gin was a girl who had left home, was now a guide on New Mexican bus tours. Teddy had come from poor but respectable parents to be an artist in the Southwest. They all met in Santa Fe, played together, thought it would be glorious to run away to Mexico. So they did. Just...
...Cabinet members strolled out later through the White House lobby, newshawks buttonholed Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak, the man who carries a potato for good luck. They queried him pointedly on the matter...