Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
...lose against Notre Dame, assured of lionhood in his profession is the serious young man who became Northwestern's football coach last year by a stroke of pure luck...
...polling was taken in great seriousness, as story after story was received about a girl shivering in the cold or rain until a "second" arrived. Many a lad told such hard luck stories as not being able to take piano lessons from a female teacher in his own abode or not being able to receive furniture from a spinster aunt who had driven many miles to bequeath it. A large number of people expressed their willingness to abide by stringent parietal rules if only the various house common rooms be open to females without registration...
...that it is mixed up with long digressions about the suffraget movement and that it is told largely by means of excerpts from Janet's diary. An orphan, marrying at 19 and bearing an unwanted child to a man she did not love, Janet had the additional ill luck to be given an inquiring and unconventional mind in an environment where any unprecedented action created talk. She tormented the Vicar with her peace meetings and suffraget agitation as much as he tormented her with his prejudices, his temper, his complaints that she had ruined his career. Only her deep...
...visitors stands, and started to apply the heat to a syncopated version of Annapolis and Crimson songs. Then second assistant football manager Bolton ran out an tapped Band Leader Irwin meaningly on the arm. Irwin nodded and kept on playing. Next assistant manager Bob Whitman tried his luck. Still the music poured forth. Referee Trimble whispered to Irwin, who nodded. The music continued...