Word: luckless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Benjamin belongs Diplomat John Slidell, slick, charming, Byronic intriguer at the Paris court, oldstyle boss of New Orleans. "Slidellian" was once a synonym for "underhand." (The Confederacy's luckless diplomacy in Mexico, Paris, London became known when Colonel Pickett sold the Confederacy's diplomatic correspondence for about $75,000 to the Federal Government...
...right-hand woman, handsome Eugenia Pope. Efficient, 33-year-old Miss Pope did much to make life bearable for her boss, fending off importunate callers and imposing order in an office not always noted for order. Miss Pope quickly got offers from other Federal bureaus and private business. Luckless Mr. Andrews, who gave up a $12,000-a-year job with New York State to take his $10,000 job in Washington, had nothing better in sight last week than a $7,500 place as labor-relations man for Reconstruction Finance Corp...
Compared with Yale's daily ten-minute quizzes, which bestrew the path of luckless Senior and Freshman alike, the supervision of History 1 notes is innocuous. It is the difference between a helping hand toward good habits and a Sword of Damocles...
Fist Over Latvia. So pleased was J. Stalin with his Estonian success that the Dictator told that country's luckless Foreign Minister to stop at Riga on his way home and "invite" the Latvian Government to yield to Russia in return for trade favors, a naval base at Libau...
Fortnight ago the trim, silver-bodied California Clipper winged out of San Francisco Bay on its first dress rehearsal. At its controls, in luckless Pilot Musick's place, was tough, tanned oldtimer Captain John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours later in Honolulu she stopped briefly, knuckled down to the remaining hops. Last week, seven days, some 7,500 miles from starting point, she taxied across Auckland, New Zealand's handsome, big harbor, fit as a fiddle, her test passed 100%. Proudly wired Pilot Tilton: "We received a warm...