Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FURIOUS YOUNG MAN-I. A. R. Wylie -Little, Brown ($2.50). Aid & comfort for the uneasy bourgeois conscience. An Oxford man makes the pilgrimage to Moscow but is happy to get home again. THE LUCK OF THE BODKINS-P. G. Wodehouse-Little, Brown ($2). Steward Peasemarch takes over while Valet Jeeves has a well-earned vacation. DUST OVER THE RUINS-Helen Ashton -Macmillan ($2.50). How to make a dull winter into something worse, or love in an archeological camp, with a vampish wife setting an old man, a boy and her surly husband on their respective ears. JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM-Klaus...
Chris was a good lad, according to the dim lights of his submerged world. Married seven years, father of two, and still in love with his Anne, he thought himself in luck to have a steady job as stoker on a transatlantic liner, to spend one blissful week at home out of every hard month. It never occurred to his simple mind, nearly as calloused as his hands, that Anne might not be contented as he was. His boozy father-in-law hinted, neighborhood gossip spoke plainer, Anne herself as good as told him that something was wrong. The most...
...idol of Boston hockey fandom closed by stating that practically all games are 80 per cent, skill and 20 per cent, luck but declared "that 20 per cent, is mighty important." He added that, with a little more coaching on form and balance, Harvard possessed plenty of skill, and he wished them all the luck, to hold a permanent place in the sun in college hockey...
...which he keeps scrupulously greased, his neckwear, which is always black, and his mastication, which is interminable. A wholesale dealer in female good looks, he has never married. "I'm independent and nobody can keep tab on what I do," says he. "I like it. And with any luck I'll beat this marriage...
...nnhilde, the most impressive debut of the week was made by Swedish Gertrud Wettergren as Amneris in Aïda. Mme. Wettergren had received flaring advance publicity when she arrived in the U. S. month ago, asked two ship-news reporters to kick her "for luck" (TIME, Dec. 2). Her performance last week proved that she could rely on something sounder than luck. She is an accomplished, rich-voiced singer with a commanding stage presence and a fine flair for acting. As Amneris she was regal enough to be a king's daughter. Throughout the performance she maintained more...