Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Saltonstall sent his best wishes and called attention to the Colonel's tolerance and trustworthiness. Ex-Governor Hurley was present, and extolled his loyalty to the University, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge sent a message of praise. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to England, wired a message wishing good luck...
...sees that his massive legs are properly powdered and that his hunting horn is in place. At the murmuring strains of Wagner's prelude, Melchior throws away his cigar and clears his throat. Kleinchen smiles and murmurs her parting salute: "Hals-und Beinbruch" (an old German good-luck greeting meaning "May you break your neck and your legs"), and the great Lauritz Melchior bounds youthfully on to the Metropolitan's aged stage...
...about time Bunny got a break. He's had management trouble, financial trouble, personnel trouble, and plain hard luck for so long that it looked as though he wasn't going to make the grade. I hope that this job is a step back towards the breaks and the playing Bunny had and did in his halcyon days on the Swing Club program...
...luck of the draw pitied the only two Crimson representatives together in the third round, when in four close games Captain Canavarro edged number 2 man Jim Rousmaniere...
Punctual, enthusiastic, pompous, slightly mischievous, Duroure has taken a new lease on life since the war began. He had been only a colonel near retirement age. "What wonderful luck," he thinks, to have been at the very age - between 50 and 65 - at which generals are made. Now he wants an Army Corps. Backed by the dubious Gurau, the rising radical young Deputy who in a previous volume subtly sold out to the oil interests and is now a cabinet minister, Duroure entertains two visiting deputies by provoking an artillery duel which goes wrong, nearly turns his little party into...