Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held it. A Manhattan janitor supplied variations in the usual lottery story by discovering, after his name had been given to the Press as winner of $75,000 with a ticket on Easton, that the ticket was not really his but another one taken out in his name "for luck" by his nephew...
Harvard wasn't having any better luck against Holy Cross in 1914 than it has in the past few years. The Crusaders took both games in their sevice...
...very long chain of luck that gave $150,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. restaurant chef named William Meringer. He had a wonderful recipe for hasenpfeffer. An anonymous patron had a ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes on Golden Miller. The patron went to the restaurant, ordered hasenpfeffer, ate three plates of it, called in Chef Meringer and gave him his ticket. Golden Miller won the Grand National (TIME, April...
...final was the fact that only two U. S. players in the last 30 years-Sweetser in 1926, Jones in 1930-have won the British Amateur. What the 12,000 saw was something much rarer, one of those mystifying rounds which, built of luck, confidence and skill in exactly the right proportions, can make the game of golf appear to be a form of magic. Before the match Little said to a reporter: 'T feel like I might shoot some pretty good golf today." The match ended, for all practical purposes, on the first green where Wallace three-putted...
...knew that this particular lady was immensely pleased with the handsome way he has handled her horses this year and last. In 1927 Mrs. Sloane, with part of the millions her late, eccentric father John F. Dodge (automobiles) left her, decided to take,up horse racing. She had bad luck until Bob Smith, 40 years in the business, took over her stable two years ago. He bought Time Clock for $700, Cavalcade for $1,200, High Quest for $3,500. Brookmeade had acquired Okapi for $6,500 and Inlander for $7,200 the year before. With these bargains...