Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck. In Oakland, Calif., Miswald Cends Wrandvakist, 50, assured the court that his name was "unlucky," asked permission to change it to Linkols Dislgrowels Wrandvausgilmolkets...
Midwest farmers have had poor luck with their pigs this spring. Sows that were counted on for litters of eight or nine farrowed only six or seven. And the young pigs were sickly, died like flies during the first week. Of Barke's expected 300 pigs, only 175 were farrowed, only 100 survived. Pork chops would be expensive next winter...
...ball-point pens. Last week, he went about as far as he could go-around the world, faster than anyone had ever gone before. As an advertising and promotional stunt, Milt Reynolds' record-breaking flight was well worth the $175,000 it cost. As a flying feat of luck and endurance, it was even more notable...
...Goodbye, good luck and please remember our 15 wives," proclaimed the placard. Printed in Russian and held aloft at the London airport by five suppliant Britons, it left the 20 departing members of the Soviet good will mission to Britain as puzzled as the blizzard of questions they had faced at a press conference two days before. "The great interest that is being shown by the British press rather surprises us," said Vasily V. Kuznetsov, the mission's leader...
...authorities," says Humorist Benchley coldly, "that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. It does seem as if people might at least take my books home with them." Benchley offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, 1st ed., inscribed ("in bull's blood") to "Garbage-Bird" Benchley...