Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight every minute of the way to keep the Hoddermen at bay. The Indians scored one in the first period and one in the second, but only the brilliant work of goalie Wes Goding, the smooth checking of the Dartmouth defense and the occasional intercession of Lady Luck enabled them to keep the hard-fighting Crimson forces...
...President's physical infirmity was reviewed in Tevere, with this conclusion: "One can understand why Roosevelt pushes his country toward war. He is a man of catastrophe, he is a man of ill luck, and he wants to bring ill luck to America." To U. S. Ambassador William Phillips this seemed a bit too much. He protested to Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Result: continued front-page anti-U. S. editorials in almost every Italian newspaper...
...whether the world has grown too grim. In one breath she confesses that her novels sold well because they were escapist. In another breath she accuses readers, and particularly critics (who ignore her books' "sound sociological basis"), of not taking them seriously enough. She kisses her hand to luck, thinks So Big became a best-seller because of "those two short words, their familiar ring, and all the fat round curves...
...notch but are lifted from previous Coward shows in London. For the rest, except for some nimble lyrics, Set to Music is Coward lazily repeating himself, once or twice turning sentimental with his usual bad taste, or trusting to luck and Lillie...
They Made Me a Criminal (Warner Bros.) is not, despite its title, a picture about unhappy gangsters. It is a straight forward story of regeneration by fresh air and pure love. Johnnie (John Garfield), a middleweight prize fighter suspected of murder, of which he is innocent rather by good luck than good management, runs away to an Arizona date farm, where he encounters Gloria Dickson and the Dead End kids. Result: he is transformed from a mean-tempered hooligan into a model of good behavior...