Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white hope of the British Foreign Office, and swart Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France. Britain's Lord Privy Seal, normally the most suave of diplomats, had just recovered from a heart attack. Word had come from London that important Cabinet changes were imminent (see p. 19). With luck, within a fortnight, Captain Eden might find himself Foreign Minister of Great Britain. Minister Laval had scarcely had a good night's sleep for a month. The clatter of railway wheels rang ceaselessly in his ears. He had just traveled from Paris to Warsaw, to Moscow, back to Warsaw...
...British Amateur is the riskiest tournament in the world because until the 36-hole final all the matches are 18 holes, which means that luck rather than superior skill is likely to decide the outcome. At St. Anne's last week, Little had more good luck than bad. In the first round, playing shaky golf, he nosed out an opponent who was even shakier, one up. In the next rounds, while he was playing better, most of the British golfers conceded the best chance of beating him, like Jack McLean, Cyril Tolley and Leslie Garnett, were being eliminated from...
...normal. Congenitally-diseased babies, babies with syphilitic tendencies, are sent to institutions soon as the customary Cradle stay-usually about five weeks- has elapsed. All parents are given the record of the real mother, and whatever information concerning the father the mother will supply. Mrs. Walrath has had great luck in wangling the truth out of them. She tries to match the children with their new parents as to coloring, general conformation, size, religions or racial origin. To the Jolsons went a child half Jewish, half Irish...
From the first Mr. Reno ran into bad showman's luck. When he called his followers to order in the open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long...
Here he was in luck. He soon discovered that of Manny Rosenbaum's 4,000,000 bu. of grain contracts, the commitments on the long side were more than offset by contracts on the short side. Liquidation would not dump quantities of grain on the market at once. By agreement with the banks, who had most of Manny Rosenbaum's spot grain as collateral, the Board of Trade Clearing House selected a group of independent brokers (whose names were kept secret) to close out the Rosenbaum open contracts privately. Within a half hour after the market opened. President...