Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of shrinking & expanding gas, buckling, lateral balance. Then he moved on to heavier-than-air machines. He never hesitated to risk his life on any of his contraptions, crashed all over France with impunity until 1909 when he was badly hurt, decided he had played out his luck. A pre-WTar Paris sight was his baby blimp moored to the balcony of his house whence he stepped into its tiny gondola, sailed down the street. Long a resident of France and a Francophile, he was accused during the War of espionage by the French Government which later apologized...
...much like a faun's afternoon. In A Day Off the blowzy heroine, just ditched by her last furtive provincial protector, blows in all her remaining shillings on a junket to Richmond Park, to have a nap on the grass. In the ladies' room she has luck enough to steal a purse, and when she gets home she finds a farewell present from George under her door. But she knows the jig is almost up. Authoress Jameson puts her to bed, watches her doze off. "The pulse in her arm lying on the dirty sheet...
...President Hoover appoints the Federal Home Loan Board, headed by his old friend and 1928 campaigner Franklin William Fort, "lame duck" Representative from New Jersey. Three days after taking office the Board marches to the White House to be photographed with the President. Says he: "Good luck and God bless...
Army's first touchdown came in the second quarter. After a 54-yd. march down Franklin Field, Quarterback Pick Vidal plunged through centre across the goal line. Navy played tenacious football and had bad luck with penalties and passes in the second half. In the last quarter, Army's substitute Left Halfback Jack Buckler threw a 34-yd. pass to Bill Frenzel, who caught it on Navy's 6-yd. line, fell into the end zone as he was tackled. Five minutes before the game ended, Buckler did most of the work on a 40-yd. march...
...plod the gullies of the Western States. Abandoned shafts have been reopened and assayed. Throughout the world jobless men have taken picks & pans and made off for the hills. Some of them have struck rich pay dirt. In Australia, Ecuador, the Rand, Chile, the Philippines, Mexico and Venezuela their luck has started minor gold rushes in recent months, mostly abortive...