Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rules the Waves." Day after the secret session, the House of Commons again did business in public, and good luck sent Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain the British Navy's triumph over the Admiral Graf Spee (see p. 20) to divert public interest from any Government shortcomings in the conduct of the war. Jubilant M. P.s, convinced more than ever that Britain rules the waves and eager to get away for the holidays, gave the Cabinet easy sailing...
Clearly the time had come to find Scarlett O'Hara. The historic discovery happened (by great good luck) to coincide with the first takes of Gone With the Wind -the burning of Atlanta...
...Chillicothe, Ohio, Mrs. Harry McNeal bent over to dry herself after a bath, backed into a heater named "Good Luck," branded herself with the name reversed...
This was an old trick to the Apted men who warned students to beware especially of a pseudo pipe salesman and a sailor with a hard luck story, reported recently to be working the College dormitories...
Last week the names of a lot of people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...