Word: luckier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith's warmest tribute is to his friend Fred Allen. Quotations from the comedian's letters prove what his friends have always known: that they are even luckier than his radio audiences. Samples...
...same day). Possible explanation for the B-25's victim being where she was: she was trying to slip into Kiska from the north, in the fog-shrouded Bering Sea where U.S. planes would be less likely to see her. But other Jap cargo ships were luckier. At least two in the past fortnight have landed supplies for the Jap force which still clings to the tail of the Aleutians. On their next raid U.S. pilots, who had been having their own way over Kiska Harbor and who had begun to hope that they would dislodge the Japs, were...
...nothing seems able to crush their spirit. In one hospital there is a young Tommy who won great fame as one of England's best swimmers. He will never swim again. Both his legs have been amputated. Yet he is happy to be alive and thinks he is luckier than most because he has just received a letter with news that his wife got a job as postmistress in their Surrey village. Cairo is full of men made of the same stuff...
...interpret the sailors' Spanish. She took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with the ship. A luckier sailor was found in the kitchen drying $300 over the stove...
...hurry-call trip from Chicago to Washington, Vice President Wallace N. Barker of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. could get a reservation only to Philadelphia, had to switch trains there. Pullman President David A. Crawford was a little luckier: he got an upper...