Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair...
...American. It is no offense to be an American. Naturally the 'charmed circle' in this country would be upset, but we Communists certainly shouldn't worry about it. If he wants to marry her, as far as I am concerned I will say: 'Good luck to him, and good luck to her!' We ought to get Socialism and have no King, and when the system goes so will the King...
...Columbus, Assistant State Director of Education E. N. Dietrich glumly observed: "Springfield has already received its full amount of State funds. . . . That's tough luck...
...nose in the ground, broke her own nose on the dashboard. Mortified, she took the occasion to announce: "Jim and I have amicably decided to go our own ways. ... In a few days he is planning to make a very hazardous flight, and while I wish him all good luck, I can't help but feel that he has not seriously considered my role in his flight-that is, either that of an embarrassed absence at his safe arrival or of a hypocritically tragic widow if he fails...
...cooperation of the undergraduates or the unlooked for burst of joy was evoked by the superior performance on the field is to revive the argument of the chicken and the egg. Saturday's game has shown that there was nothing chronic in the team's previous ill luck, and that football played as a clean sport has lost none of its interest or effectiveness...