Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball team has been meeting with hard luck in its attempts to get its season under way. It was rained out in its first two scheduled games with Columbia and Pennsylvania, and now when the weather man seems ready to furnish baseball weather, Coach Fred Mitchell is stricken...
...members of the present boat are Sophomores. It is the problem of the coach to build for next year when the positions of the two men who are graduating this year will be adequately filled by some of the members of the present Jayvee boat and to trust to luck that the Crimson will make a respectable showing during the coming season...
Bale had his job cut out for him. He disguised himself in blue trousers taken from a Federal corpse, joined a Confederate night attack on Culp's Hill. At dawn good luck helped him inside the Federal position. Next day Pacifist Bale saw more bloodshed than most soldiers ever see, but he still had enough humor to laugh at the sign in Ever Green Cemetery: "All persons found using firearms in these grounds will be prosecuted with the utmost vigor of the law." He finally discovered his man's corps in the centre of the line...
...Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland. John Hay ("Jock" ) Whitney, who has not missed a Grand National in six years and who had better luck than usual when his Thomond II finished third last week, is William Collins Whitney's grandson. Delaneige, who led the field most of the way, is owned by John B. Snow, merchandise manager of Woolworth's in England. G. H. Wilson, Golden Miller's jockey...
...legal loophole for Chancellor Chamberlain and his shipping cronies was the fact that I. M. M. sold Wihite Star to Royal Mail. Royal Mail was the debtor, not White Star. It was Mr. Franklin's hard luck that in the meantime Royal Mail had collapsed...