Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finalist Richard H. Granelli, 25, a self-taught office boy, had won one of the Institute's $500 scholarships last year for study at Fontainebleau. He figured music buildings brought him luck. He figured further that the main problem of an opera house was to get the people in and out quickly. Concentrating on the cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last...
...hands of virgins. Hitherto the ruling virgins had propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would be discovered in the temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such luck befell Balkis, even though, at the priest's request, a god once visited her disguised in human flesh. The priests, in despair, then packed her off to Solomon. Unfortunately she sends lovely Zud, her lady-in-waiting, ahead to salute Solomon. He becomes infatuated with Zud, and Balkis...
...local cream-separator factory. Jack Leonard went to the State University planning to be a doctor but he spent most of his time there getting up orchestras, playing for dances. He decided to go into vaudeville but it took his adopted, sandwich-like name to bring him luck. In 1922 he started plugging songs for a music publisher from KDKA, Pittsburgh's pioneer station. That year he wrote "Jealous," his first & biggest...
Last week, on the eighth day after he had left Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., for Warsaw, Polish-American Pilot Stanislaus Felix Hausner, too exhausted to talk, was rescued from his floating Bellanca by a tanker, 600 mi. off the coast of Portugal. Astonished airmen marvelled at his "dumb luck." Pilot Hausner's attractive wife, Martha, and the pastor of the Polish-Catholic Church in Newark, N. J., which they attended were joyful but not astonished. They remarked that Pilot Hausner had carried a medal of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers...
...nicely balances the name. At the district school Owen soon called attention to himself, was sent, on his teacher's recommendation, to the East Springfield Academy, whence he was graduated as valedictorian in 1889. His unusual abilities led his family to send him to St. Lawrence University. Luck attended him. Once in class, when he mumbled an apology for not knowing an answer, the deaf professor praised him: "Your answer is correct, Mr. Young." In 1894 he went, to Boston University, studied law. For years he practiced law, specializing in public utilities, until in 1912 he caught the attention...