Word: luckless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession of grimy trucks and creaky wagons bearing big placards wound slowly through the deep, dim streets of downtown Manhattan one lunch hour last week. Wastepaper dealers were holding a parade against their luckless lot. Under contract at 15¢ per cwt. to empty the trash baskets of Wall Street's tall towers, they were unable to sell their wares for any price at all. Whereas a year ago they could get as much as 70¢ per cwt. for this waste they were now having to pay a big incinerator a fee to dispose...
...Sinclair victory threatened to drive California moderates as well as conservatives to vote the Republican ticket in November. If such a mass movement should develop, it might sweep many a luckless Democratic Representative out of his seat and return to the House a batch of Republicans who would do the prestige of the Roosevelt Administration no national good whatever. Both Boss Farley and President Roosevelt were anxiously aware of these possibilities when Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware said the thing they did not want said: "Upton Sinclair is a Socialist running on a Socialist platform heartily endorsing the New Deal...
Meantime the Krassin ploughed steadily down the Baltic, across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, up the Pacific Coast, through Bering Straits. Smaller (4,900 tons) than the luckless Chelyuskin (6,500 tons), it had special ice-breaking equipment which enabled it to crunch indomitably through the pack. When it put in at Wrangel last week the colonists, their belongings packed and their long exile over, shed tears of joy. Fifteen scientists went ashore to replace the departing six. Mme Semenchuk. wife of the new station chief, presented a bouquet to Mme Mineyev, wife of the retiring chief...
...Executive Editors" whom Editor Ross has successively hired in a mad search for System. The procedure is invariable: Ross finds a new genius at a cocktail party or on a newspaper or in an advertising agency, promptly installs him as Executive Editor. Oldtimers on the staff refer to the luckless incumbent as "Jesus." For a few weeks, perhaps for a few months, "Jesus" is given what is supposed to be a free hand. Then Editor Ross is assailed by doubts. Soon he takes issue with every decision that "Jesus" makes, and presently his hostility becomes a deep loathing...
...Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have appeared in the script, all of them conceived and impersonated by Gosden and Correll...