Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat, is given to patting people on the back. Meeting J. P. Morgan at a recent Commencement, he is said to have patted the famous financier on the back and wished him luck...
...sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess I can get by on four hundred hard money." "Wull, good luck John," Mr. Clinton wished as his car rattled away: John returned to his wood pile. The September sun poured upon his broad back, on the stone fence along the road. * * * While the evening sun sank beneath the waves of Superior the lake breeze coughed sweetly through the pines. The Doctor...
When the black-jacketed, long-trousered schoolboys of Eton College gather again this autumn after their seven-week Long Vacation, some of their first chatterings will be about the jolly bad luck that four of their masters had last week. Mountain-climbing in Switzerland were House-Masters H. E. Howson, E. V. Slater, E. W. Powell (an Oxford Blue, onetime winner of the Henley Diamond Sculls), and Assistant Master C. R. White-Thomson, eldest son of the Bishop of Ely. Roped together, they were toiling up dangerous Mt. Roseg, near Pontresina. When they did not return on schedule searchers went...
...ascension ever made-a flight to the stratosphere by Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle. Ceremonies lasted seven hours. Soldiers and sailors paraded the field. Massed bands countermarched. Radio loudspeakers brought from Manhattan the voice of Professor Arthur Holly Compton. scientific director of the flight, wishing Commander Settle luck in breaking Auguste Piccard's 10-mi. altitude record and in gathering data on cosmic and ultraviolet rays. A major-general had the honor of starting the hydrogen gas hissing into the acre of white rubberized bag-biggest ever built. An admiral saw to the hooking...
...Conveniently, Lady Fearless was drowned as her husband had been. Young Nigel, whisked away by an itinerant tinker, was brought up in ignorance of his birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with a past as plaguey as his own and shared an island with her for three idyllic months. She swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share...