Word: lucking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually arrived in Chicago riding the rods of a freight. Having learned from hoboes that this was too risky a procedure from Chicago to New York, he bought a ticket, got to Manhattan with 6? left. By extraordinary luck he encountered a Whitman classmate, borrowed $75. Tutoring and writing a textbook on the side, he had $1,000 when summer came round again. Back he went to Yakima to marry pretty Mildred Riddle, a fellow teacher in Yakima whom he had often taken picnicking in an antique automobile. When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however...
...Lady Luck, Leiber alone and Dickey with this in mind--the Sage offers no Mancuses...
...long book (627 pages), Andrew Jackson clips along because its subject had more surprises up his sleeve than other Presidents. Highly unpleasant surprises to many a contemporary, they were nevertheless marked by one characteristic on which all could agree: Jackson's luck. Author James makes hay with the evidence : Jackson's two landslide elections in the face of some of the most savage mud-slinging in U. S. politics; his lucky solution of the four-year Government crisis precipitated by his defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South...
Popular belief was and is that only through luck has Harvard escaped serious injury through discharge of firearms. Some students kept what amounted to arsenals in their rooms...
Sandy Calder is spectacularly lucky. At golf for example, he has five times made holes in one, once with his opening shot in a tournament at Great Barrington, Mass, before a gallery of 300. Sandy Calder's luck is not limited to golf-he has made a huge success out of everything he has touched. Fourth of six brothers, he was born in New York City 51 years ago. At 25 he went to work as a salesman in the wood pulp & paper firm of Perkins-Goodwin Co. where his older brother Lou already had a job. Three years...