Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...besides, held up another bank. Then, as time passed, another and another. He never got big money; his first five robberies netted only $4,500. But until early this month he was never suspected. Then he took $863 from the First National Bank of Le Roy, Kans. and his luck ran out. His car broke down on a mud road as he backtracked to shake off pursuit; a farmer who helped him repair it saw that it bore no license plates...
Three to Make Ready (music by Morgan Lewis; sketches and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton; produced by Stanley Gilkey and Barbara Payne) bobbed up, after a series of slithering musicomedies, as the season's first revue. But the change of pattern provided little change of luck. Despite having Dancer Ray Bolger (On Your Toes, By Jupiter), a star with about the nimblest feet in show business, Three to Make Ready slithers too. Its music is tepid and tacky. Most of its skits are not funny at all and the rest are not funny enough...
...ceres met another Latin American diplomat at a Washington reception. "I say, Caceres," said the friend, "TIME reports the Honduran opposition is using 'Pinos de Honduras' for a slogan, and your President of Congress maintains that a revolutionary ought to be hanged from each pine. What luck you aren't a revolutionary. The pine would surely break...
Lord Keynes, British money expert, arriving in the U.S. for a meeting of Bretton Woods wizards, was asked by newsmen to comment on a Londoner's remark that the U.S. loan would make England "an illegitimate 49th state of the Union." Smiled Keynes: "No such luck...
Most of the men went down with their ship in the Solomons without ever resolving their suspense. But two years later, one survivor was still scouring around after those last two chapters (TIME, Nov. 20, 1944). He was out of luck unless he sent to England, where the book was published in 1940, and sold 232,000 copies...