Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporter who was so sensitive that a bad concert which he covered one night gave him a splitting headache, forced him to quit work early. Ten minutes after he left the building the McNamara boys blew it up, killing 21 men. That was the first occasion when illness brought luck to Willard Huntington Wright...
...Wright had published nine scholarly books (What Nietzsche Taught, The Future of Painting, etc.), had worked himself into a nervous breakdown that turned his luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor would allow him. When he was able to get around, he took to Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed...
Wright hoped that with financial success he could resume his earlier scholarly career. But several months ago he became ill, developed coronary thrombosis. This time illness did not bring luck to 51-year-old Willard Huntington Wright. Instead, last week, came Death...
...Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone or High John the Conqueror Root and other similar products bring good luck, love, romance, power, life, inspiration, easy money or irresistibility...
Healey's pitching and Gannett's hitting featured the contest. Allowing only one earned run and six hits, three of which were scratch, and walking two Lions, the big hurler's control was excellent. Gannett, hitting in hard luck during the spring trip, connected safely four out of six trips to the plate and also turned in several sparkling catches...