Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while he claimed that his was a peaceful nation. From peaceful Admiral Tamm they went to Gertrud Wettergren, sleek, dark-haired Swedish contralto who is shortly to make her debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Mme Wettergren was nervously crossing her fingers, knocking on wood. Perfunctorily the reporters wished her luck, whereupon she flashed a wide smile, presented her back, said "Kick...
...hers, explained that it was an old Swedish custom for a person to be kicked before beginning any new venture. In Sweden students are commonly kicked before they enter an examination room. Actors and singers are kicked before important first nights.* The kicks on the Gripsholm last week brought luck indeed to Mme Wettergren, boosted her straight into headlines. The Post ran her picture with a front-page story. Pictures were also in the American, the News, the Herald Tribune, stories in the Sun, the World-Telegram, the Journal. The fatherly New York Times merely noted that Mme Wettergren...
With 60 seconds to play. Halfback Bill Shakespeare arched a pass down the field. An official claimed Army interference, put the ball on the 2-yd. line. From there Notre Dame made a touchdown, tying the score at 6-to-6, left 80,000 gasping spectators feeling that luck had played again with the ''Fighting Irish." Pious Catholics credited the last-minute tie to the devotion of squad members who attended Friday morning mass in New Rochelle's Holy Family Church...
...next ten years Helen Jepson grubbed her way. She married George Roscoe Possell, a struggling young flautist, to whom she bore a daughter as blonde as herself. To go on studying she did the family laundry, scrubbed her own floors. First real luck came year and a half ago when Paul Whiteman engaged her for a radio series. Winters have been all work but in the summers she takes time off for fishing, becomes so absorbed in surfcasting that her husband has to remind her that her business is singing...
Next day when she buzzed off toward Rio, her luck ran out. Missing her way over the jungle, she bogged down for the night with a leaking fuel tank in a swamp 60 mi. from...