Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break on an upper shroud. This tiny mishap put additional strain on the other stays, which snapped one by one all through the night. Soon after dawn, off Gloucester, the towering mast finally crashed over the side, carrying all the rigging with it. Said Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt: "Bad luck!" At Bristol, R. I., workmen prepared to fit Ranger with the mast that used to belong to the old Vanderbilt yacht Rainbow...
...astonishing number of cases to link its articles with red-hot, unpredictable news. It was natural enough that the Post, like Collier's, should run a dirigible article at about the time of the Hindenburg's first voyage of the spring season.* But only by luck did the Post article deal with disaster...
Most famed example of what used to be called Lorimer Luck† occurred at the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding in San Francisco in 1923. Mrs. Harding had just read to the ailing President an article about himself by the Post's Samuel G. Blythe when he turned quietly over and died. In 1931, brilliant Lillian Leitzel of the circus was killed by a fall from a trapeze. Next week the Post carried an article about their professional risks by her husband, Alfredo Codona. Title: "Taking the Fall." In 1932, an issue...
...miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members of a German machine-gun nest, he murmurs, "What a dish!'' and bowls them over like clay ducks in a shooting gallery...
...Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...