Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles...
Outcasts of Poker Flat is a synthesis of three Bret Harte stories-the title piece, The Luck of Roaring Camp and The Idyl of Red Gulch. Though skimpily produced, it invokes with a fidelity unusual in a double-biller the wild land and rugged times in which its scene is laid, and the nostalgic charm of the Harte stories. Its worst fault is the failure of explicitness in the last sequence, leaving the audience completely fuddled as to the reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather...
...from top to bottom. In telepathy, he is required to guess the card visualized in the mind of an agent. Since at every step there is a choice of one among five, the subject should make an average of five hits in a run of 25, if nothing but luck or chance entered the situation. There is nothing in the law of averages to prevent him from making ten hits, or 15, or even 20 once in a long while. But if he maintains an average consistently higher than the normal expectancy, the results become significant. Thus, according...
...Alfred were out of high school and helping their father try to clear a farm of 5-ft. tree stumps that they got a taste of the backbreaking side of pioneer life, the poor future in it. After a year, having cleared one acre, they decided to try their luck prospecting in Alaska, sailed in their homemade sloop, enjoyed themselves but found no gold. When the U. S. entered the War, they went home to join...
...Madame Blouse is a great woman at figures. Before she tried to explain her system she asked if first I didn't want to see her "30 Beautiful Girls 30". So I tightened my purse strings and went to the casino trusting to beginner's luck...