Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who have not had the luck or money to get into Manhattan's Copacabana (or other Durante nightspots in the past) have missed the full effect of Jimmy's comedy, which comes only from watching him work in a small joint where his extraordinary gusto can not only bounce forth but also reach him on the rebound from a close and delighted audience. Then Jimmy reaches a comic violence that makes his audience feel like spectators at a small Balkan...
...army commander in Russia when Ukrainian guerrillas killed his chief, Colonel General Eugen Ritter von Schobert. For yet another year, Manstein marched from victory to victory-Odessa, Perekop, Kerch, Sevastopol. But victory was tinged with pain: his two boys, both lieutenants, died in action. And the sands of luck were running...
...evidently determined to go into western Europe with some of the men who worked with him in the south. But to those who remained behind he gave a heartening farewell: "Until we meet again in the heart of the enemy's Continental stronghold I send godspeed and good luck to each of you along with the assurance of my lasting gratitude and admiration...
Evelyn Nesbit was set for a Broadway comeback this week. The famously fatal beauty, now 58 and a plump-faced grandmother, was to try her luck as a singer at a spot called Tony Pastor's Uptown...
...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...