Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head with a pistol. In such an atmosphere was born the author's impression of Princeton in The Goose-step. Manassas, the author's fourth book, was no more successful than the first three. Then for the first time in his life Upton Sinclair had a little luck. He got a publisher to send him out to Chicago to investigate working conditions in the packing industry. The result was The Jungle, the biggest literary bomb burst since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sinclair made $30,000, a huge name for himself as a muckraker. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted...
...last nine Serbian rulers, only three, including King Alexander's senile father, Peter I, died natural deaths while reigning. Spectacled Alexander never expected to share his father's luck. At his country estate in Bled last January he drew up his will and decreed that in case of his sudden death, three regents should rule the country until little Peter became...
Case of Judge Prince. Within the fortnight Papa Cheron had played in bad luck. Weeks of shouting by the opposition Press finally forced the release, against his orders, of the long-suppressed official report on the murder of Judge Albert Prince at Dijon. It filled 180 pages and proved nothing at all beyond the ability of the Gallic mind to confuse an issue...
...boat home. She had been in a Grade D .Shubert show. Its run was short. No one took much notice of the songs she sang. Basso Feodor Chaliapin and La Argentina, the dancer, were equally unfortunate on their first U. S. visits, but both had sensational comebacks. Last week luck had changed for Lucienne Boyer...
...Luck and a willingness to fight like the devil when faced with a crisis, combined to give the Varsity a 12-0 victory over Bates on Saturday, but what is bothering the Harvard fans right now is the question, will this same combination be sufficient to take Brown at the end of the week...