Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator White: Tell us, what luck as a fisherman did the President have...
...prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best season of his 20 years in racing. Nothing could stop him, and nothing did. He booted Okapi down the Widener chute with 15,000 people yelling in the sunshine, bettered the time by which the little brown horse...
...producing hits, and if they fail to do so on one or two occasions, they can hardly be condemned as any worse than human. There is Mr. Bing Crosby, Baxter, Vallee, and several others who appear periodically in films which should have song hits. Mr. Baxter had the best luck of all when he started out in "42nd Street." Mr. Crosby has also been awarded a number of highly acceptable tunes such as "Please," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Here Lies Love." "Stand Up and Cheer" is equipped with pleasant orchestrations and ranks about a B-- on music...
...boats, lest they get hurt; otherwise it's their own fault, and the government should forget them. Such naivete is dangerous. When an American or British ship was torpedoed in 1915, and its cargo lest, it meant another order for the Yankees, c.o.d., or f.o.b. It was just tough luck on the crew, but it was also another million-dollar order. And let Mr. Stoddard consider that the war propaganda was largely generated not by those who wanted to buy, but by those who wanted to sell American products. Mr. Stoddard is kind to those men. An embargo on arms...
...plan last week to cut (wo billion francs a year from this charge by replacing 6,000 mi. of secondary lines by passenger and freight buses and trimming 60,000 employes from the rolls. He further proposed to cut the pay and pensions of all other employes. With luck. this should leave French railroads selfsupporting...