Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cropped. In Murphysboro, Ill., an optimistic barber overheard Farmers Bill and Arthur Guetterslau complaining about their sour luck, promptly traded a haircut and a shave for 150 acres of flooded wheat...
Quiet Type. But Mild & Bitter had no record of hair-raising escapes. Her saga was one of good luck and almost monotonous efficiency. She had lugged 166 different airmen to battle; 26 were decorated, but not one got a Purple Heart. During her robust career she acquired some 50 flak holes, but never any damage that Bill Stuart and his ground crew could not repair overnight...
...whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...
Danish-born George Olsen, onetime farmer and poultry operator, beneficiary of this nomenclatural luck, used his newfound fame to popularize his hobby. To correspondents he distributed copies of his formula for squaring the circle, which he has worked on since...
...Allegretti V-12. He plays the part of a frightened young man who becomes the local Sinatra by claiming to have killed his father. Opposite him, playing the feminine lead of Pegeen Mike, is the Idler president, Leslie Paul, who finds herself overcome by his lethal charms. Out of luck, is Shawn Keogh, played by Ingersoll Cunningham V-12, a timid suitor, sever quite ready to take the big plunge...