Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election may be bad luck if the outgoing government happens to be shoving into the lap of the new Premier a huge budgetary deficit. Four years ago Rumania's National Peasant Party won an election under such conditions, restored comparative financial order and was later ousted by King Carol and wastrel politicians who squandered what the Peasant Government had saved...
...storm screams monotonously Chee-Ak suggests that they starve afoot. According to tribal routine they seal the aged into their igloos to die. Kyatuk's father is so left but Kyatuk protests. Chee-Ak backs her up. The tribe's offended gods dog the march with bad luck, nearly crushing them all in the polar icepack, until Kyatuk's father is drowned. At once they find and kill seal and walrus, watch the thick blood bubble, rejoice for the Spring...
...merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings with a classbook under...
...three such fevers run their course is the book's story. Good luck with cod, phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older...
...tutored in Hindi himself, and to converse with the Maharajah from time to time. That strange potentate, with his Pekingese face and nasturtium-colored tongue, was a fantastic hodge-podge of East and West. Once while out motoring to catch sight of a mongoose which would bring good luck, Tutor Ackerley admired a particular stretch of scenery. Unfortunately that particular land was not a part of Chhokrapur, belonged to the Maharajah of Deori, with whom the Prince was not on speaking terms. "Well, he's got a beautiful State," said Tutor Ackerley. "Very beautiful," His Highness agreed irritably...