Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field but one. Then Ortman's motor sputtered, slowed him up, and Turner won with an average of 283 m. p. h. Happy over the prospect of $18,000 first money and a bonus of $4,000 for breaking the course record (264 m.p.h.), Turner attributed his good luck to the godspeed of two old ladies whose prayer book he had auto graphed before the race...
...Flower" for more than 1,000 years. No Japanese except royalty may use the full or 16-petal chrysanthemum device, but with fewer petals the chrysanthemum figures in countless Japanese designs, supposedly lucky. In Italy, however, to present a living man with a chrysanthemum is to wish him bad luck, for chrysanthemums are considered ideal flowers for graves...
Superstitious, nervous spinsters bank on the old adage that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Superstitious, nervy gamblers bank on the chance that bad luck will also scatter its bolts. Last week both lightning and luck struck with tragic redundance...
...opposite direction from his rivals. That was the only race Man o' War ever lost. The horse which beat him was named Upset. Since that day race fans have thought of the Sanford Memorial as the race in which Man o' War was licked by bad luck...
...richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...