Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north, most important theatre of war, Japan's luck was good last week. General Count Juichi Terauchi, former Minister of War and now commander-in-chief in North China, was able to send a column of 60,000 men, mechanized, well-equipped, headed by cavalry, southwest from Peiping to cut the vitally important Peiping-Hankow railroad at Chochow...
...farm near Ausable Forks, N. Y., Artist Kent was surprised to hear of all the fuss. "I think it's a swell thing when people want independence and I think it's the most American thing one can do to wish them luck," said he. "In Puerto Rico a large part of the population is asking for at least the right to a plebiscite. It seems to me as an American that, speaking through the pen of the Eskimos, if the people of Puerto Rico want to be free, God bless them...
...month, and up to last week China has had the upper hand. The Chinese war was a new upheaval; it burst squarely in the correspondents' laps; there was virtually no censorship to plague the press. Shanghai was a Richard Harding Davis dream, and newspapers pushed the good luck while it lasted. Combining enterprise with luck, the Associated Press obtained one of the most complete picture beats of the year. It got a fine shot of the bombing of the Shanghai waterfront (see p.19) and many pictures of the dead piled up in the streets. The photographs were rushed...
...having asked him in. On the military side, Walker was unbeatable. Augmented by a steady flow of recruits from the U. S. (who received free transportation on Vanderbilt boats), he soon appointed himself commander in chief of the Nicaraguan army. Had his judgment been half as good as his luck he might have ruled a long time...
Still undaunted, Walker tried to go back to Nicaragua, was arrested as he landed. His last try was an expedition to the Bay Islands, off Honduras. Meeting bad luck from the start, cornered finally by a landing party from a British battleship, Walker threw away his chance to get back to the U. S. when he proclaimed himself the leading citizen of Nicaragua. Protesting to the "civilized world" on the injustice done him by the British, "the gray-eyed man of destiny" spent the six days before he faced a firing squad in meditation and prayer...