Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bruised and shaky, with a huge black ring around one eye, Fisticuffer Max Baer had a haircut, a shave and manicure, commiserated with his 238-lb. brother Buddy Baer, who had lost a decision to a Montana heavyweight named Ford Smith right after the big fight.* He wished Louis luck, announced that he would retire to raise white-faced cattle on his California ranch...
...Stammers took care of Carolin Babcock in the quarterfinals. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan took care of Kay Stammers the next day. On the afternoon of the Allison-Perry match, to which her characteristic bad luck made her own triumph an anticlimax, Helen Jacobs quickly and calmly took care of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan herself...
...Regarding the connection between clovers and luck, here I am over 50 and never been on my back with sickness yet, have a fine wife and son who have never been sick and one of the finest offices in the whole profession. I'm healthy and athletic and play a wonderful game of handball. I never had an auto accident, never been hurt in any kind of accident, . . . and never been out of a job. As for the Depression, I never felt...
...m.p.h. hurricane. Of a philosophical turn of mind, Captain Sundstrom had observed upon taking command of the Dixie last year: "You've always got to be on guard against the oceans. They may look peaceful and act peaceful for a long time. That's your good luck. But you know the time is coming when the sea is going to rise and hand you all it's got in the way of trouble-and that's plenty." Aground in a tropical hurricane at night last week, Captain Sundstrom was handed a maximum of trouble...
Dedicated "To Someone I Love," Mary Pickford's first novel tells the story of Coralee Dumont, golden-haired, silver-voiced little widow whose extraordinary run of good luck began when she was stranded in Paris one July...