Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor. He tried selling insurance and traveling in wholesale groceries. In 1916 he was playing leads with Essanay Film Co. in Chicago. Thereafter, his luck failed in cinema and he spent 15 years as a character actor on the Manhattan stage until his work in a Coast company of Whistling in the Dark got him a few small parts in Hollywood in 1932. His performance as a bibulous millionaire in Sadie McKee last year...
...impaired when Freddy Fitzsimmons broke his elbow fortnight ago, was promptly diminished to the danger point when Rookie Clydell Castleman, who had won eight games, lost two, broke his hand in batting practice. One major reason for the Giants' success so far this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid, blond centre fielder, Harry ("Hank") Leiber, whom any consensus of experts would name as the outstanding rookie of the year. Discovered by one-time Giant Pitcher Arthur Nehf, Leiber, 23-year-old son of a Phoenix, Ariz, advertising man, joined the team in 1933, went...
...four years ago when his employers discovered that he had helped write anonymous, gossipy Washington Merry-Go-Round (TIME, Sept. 21, 1931). When his good friend & colleague, Drew Pearson, was similarly discharged from the Baltimore Sun for his hand in More Merry-Go-Round, the two turned their bad luck into fame & fortune by starting a syndicated column called Washington Merry-Go-Round. Crack newshawks both, their knowing gossip has made them minor political powers around the capital, while Bob Allen's pugnacity has won him a certain extraprofessional renown...
Depression pushed Cosden Oil Co. into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...
...Author William E. Woodward (Bunk, George Washington-the Image and the Man, Meet General Grant, Evelyn Prentice, etc. etc.), congratulations on his health, appetite, luck...