Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Julien in April 1915 (13 years before she was born) had something to do with it. Lieut. Clyde Scott of Canada's "Iron 2nd" Battalion had been hit by shrapnel and machine-gun fire in both hips, one knee and one eye, and left for dead. By sheerest luck, a German search party kicked at a pile of bodies, causing Lieut. Scott, who was on top, to turn .over and groan. He was taken to a German hospital. Two years later, after his parents had given him up for dead (memorial services for him had been held at Perth...
...from a novel by Mexico's Mysterious Stranger, B. Traven. The story, ideal for movie purposes, is a sardonic, intensely realistic fable, masterfully disguised as an adventure story. It is a tale about three Americans of the mid-1920s, on the bum in Tampico. Running into modest luck in a lottery, they strike off into the depths of Mexico's mountains in search of gold...
Russia's Joseph Stalin had his usual amazing political luck: he ran for city deputy of 1) Tiflis, 2) Frunze, 3) Alma Ata, got every last vote cast...
...nobody's fool. He knows that his talents, though real, are not extraordinary. He is acutely aware of the wide gap between his natural abilities and his smashing success. He knows pretty well how much of his spectacular rise he can credit to himself, how much to pure luck, how much to the peculiarities of the flying-trapeze world he works in. He fully expects to wake up one of these days and find himself in San Diego again, driving a truck...
Captain-elect Kenny O'Donnell echoed Moravee's reaction. "I'm sorry to hear that Dick Harlow's health is worse. I'd like to join with Vince in wishing him all the best of luck...