Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human beings." Her advice to parents is never dogmatic. Interspersed with references to numerous moppets whose behavior has been minutely observed and recorded by psychologists, it may lead impartial readers to conclude that children are a terrifying breed, that successfully applying psychologists' advice to them is a matter of luck alone...
...holding hands with strange young men at the cinema were not for her." She struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned...
After five hours the Bordens were turned loose and in pitch darkness struggled back along a lonely road toward Istanbul. By extreme good luck they met Adam Cieminsky, clerk of the U. S. Military Attaché at Istanbul, and from that instant things moved fast...
...LIFE AND MISADVENTURES OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES?Mariano Tomas?Houghton Mifflin ($3). Few writers of anything except bad checks have spent more time in jail than Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the world-famed Don Quixote. According to Biographer Tomas, it was bad luck, not bad management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about...
...that Oscar must be nearly as old as the President's son, spruce Lieut.-Colonel Oscar von Hindenburg. With his nameless mate Oscar spends his winters in Africa, as do most East Prussian storks, but summer finds him always back at Neudeck to bring not babies but good luck to the 86-year-old Reichspräsident. In backward, superstitious East Prussia nothing is so unlucky for a great landed Junker as to lose his stork. "Take care of Oscar" the President benignly commands when leaving Neudeck, and Oscar, so peasants think, takes care of Old Paul. Last week...